Berlioz and the Romantic Century. Volume I /

Berlioz and the Romantic Century. Volume I / / Jacques Barzun.

A biography of Hector Berlioz that includes a record guide on twelve of his works, an essay on aesthetics, and an account of nineteenth-century culture.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Barzun, Jacques,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1969]
©1969
Year of Publication:1969
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1118 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Author’s Note
  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Volume One
  • Introduction. Berlioz as Man and Artist
  • France
  • 1. Time, Place, Persons
  • 2. Ce Qu’ on Entend sur la Montagne
  • 3. Opera and Conservatoire
  • 4. Faustian Man
  • 5. Revolution in July
  • 6. Reveries and Passions: Symphonie Fantastique
  • 7. Interchapter: Program Music and the Unicorn
  • Italy
  • 8. Roman Holiday: Lélio
  • 9. Recollected in Tranquillity: Harold in Italy
  • 10. The Gothic Tradition: Requiem Mass
  • 11. The Hero as Artist: Benvenuto Cellini
  • 12. The Dramatic Symphony: Romeo and Juliet
  • 13. Vox Populi: Funeral and Triumphal Symphony
  • 14. Interchapter: The Century of Romanticism
  • Germany
  • 15. Music for Europe: A Travers Chants
  • 16. The Art of Composition: The Treatise
  • 17. Form and Philosophy: The Damnation of Faust
  • 18. Song in Time of Revolution
  • 19. Vision of a Virtuoso: Te Deum
  • Volume Two
  • Frontmatter II
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 20. Interchapter: Memoirs of Art and Life
  • England, Germany, and Russia
  • 21. Victorian London: Evenings with the Orchestra
  • 22. Religious History: L’Enfance du Christ
  • 23. Virgilian Music Drama: Les Troyens
  • 24. Esthetes Abroad: Wagner, Liszt, and the Princess
  • 25. Prospero’ s Farewell: Beatrice and Benedict
  • 26. Empire and Industry: Les Grotesques
  • 27. Holy Russia and Giddy France: 33 Melodies
  • 28. Memory’s End
  • Supplements
  • 1. Berlioz’ Afterfame
  • 2. Biographer’s Fallacy: Boschot’s Berlioz
  • 3. Desiderata; Present State of Berlioz Studies (1949)
  • 4. Euphonia and Bayreuth: Musical Cities
  • 5. Berlioz on the Future of Rhythm
  • 6. The Fetish of Form
  • Chronology
  • Berlioz’ Domiciles
  • Errors in the “ Complete” Edition of the Scores
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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