Treatise on Instrumentation

Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 842

Book Description
This influential work appraises the musical qualities and potential of over 60 stringed, wind, and percussion instruments. Includes 150 full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, others. Foreword by Richard Strauss.

A Treatise Upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration ...

Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conducting
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

Author: Ian Kemp
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521348133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has three main concerns: historical, analytical and interpretative. There is a detailed description of the genesis of each work, the collaboration between librettist and composer, and the first performance and subsequent stage history. A full synopsis considers the opera as a structure of musical and dramatic effects, and there is also a musical analysis of a section of the score. The analysis, like the history, shades naturally into interpretation: by a careful combination of new essays and excerpts from classic statements the editors of the handbooks show how critical writing about the opera, like the production and performance, can direct or distort appreciation of its structural elements. A final section of documents gives a select bibliography, a discography, and guides to other sources. Each book is published in both hard covers and as a paperback.

Musical Studies

Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Mr. Newman's fearless attitude toward music & composers results in an iconoclastic treatment of some of the old masters & a proportionately exalted consideration of others of more modern schools. The essay on programme music is unquestionably the most lucid, original, & convincing discussion of that question ever printed.

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz

Author: Inge Van Rij
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316252871
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

Evenings with the Orchestra

Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043746
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.

Mahler in Context

Author: Charles Youmans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108540147
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 561

Book Description
Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training, performing career, creative activity, spiritual and philosophical influences, and his reception after his death. Together, this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler's life. Through this broader contextual approach, this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.

Strauss

Author: Laurenz Lütteken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190605707
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music. Some consider him a composer of the late romantic period, while others declare him a traitor of modernity for his role in National Socialism. Despite the controversy surrounding him, Strauss's works--even beyond his most well-known operas Elektra and Rosenkavalier--are present in the repertories of concert halls worldwide and continue to enjoy large audiences. The details of the composer's life, however, remain shrouded in mystery and gossip. Laurenz Lütteken's Strauss presents a fresh approach to understanding this elusive composer's life and works. Dispensing with stereotypes and sensationalism, it reveals Strauss to be a sensitive intellectual and representative of modernity, with all light and shade of the turn of the twentieth century.

Musicians of To-day

Author: Romain Rolland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

Author: Francesca Brittan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.