Experiencing Berlioz (eBook)

A Listener's Companion

Melinda P. O'Neal (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
292 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-8607-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Experiencing Berlioz offers an accessible pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works.

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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion is an in-depth entree into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe.Melinda O'Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying allure of Berliozs music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works. As O'Neal addresses the motivation and conception, sonic atmosphere, and compositional strategies of key works, she provides a new multifaceted experience not only to music historians and performers but also to any amateur music lover who has ever been entranced by Berlioz's undeniable musical veracity. As the listener interacts with Berliozs music, the ears curiosity and imagination will take flight.

Autor

Melinda P. O'Neal is a choral-orchestral conductor and professor of music at Dartmouth College. Her fascination with the music of Berlioz began when rehearsing the final mystical chorus of L’enfance du Christ in graduate school. Berlioz has been the subject of O’Neal’s teaching and writing, and she has prepared choruses and conducted in performance most of his vocal-instrumental works. Learn more about O'Neal and explore selected texts and translations referred to in Experiencing Berlioz at www.melindaoneal.net.

Inhalt

Opening Your Imagination: Introduction and GuideChapter 1: SongsNeuf mélodies: La belle voyageuse and Élégie en proseLes nuits d’étésLa mort d’OphélieLe trébuchet: scherzoLa belle Isabeau: conte pendant l’orageChapter 2: Music for ChorusNeuf mélodies: Chant guerrier and Chanson à boireSara la baigneuseScène héroïque: la révolution grecque Le cinq maiHymne à la FranceChapter 3: Orchestral MusicSymphonie fantastiqueRoméo et JulietteChapter 4: Extended Choral-Orchestral WorksMesse solennelleGrande messe des morts (Requiem)La damnation de FaustL’enfance du ChristChapter 5: OperasBenvenuto CelliniLes TroyensAppendicesA. Song InventoryB. Choral MusicC. Program of Symphonie fantastiqueD. Selected References in Berlioz’s Mémoires

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Listener's Companion
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Schlagworte: Classical music • Composers • music biography • operas
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-8607-3 / 0810886073
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8607-0 / 9780810886070