[PDF] Fantastic Symphony eBook

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1009084380

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Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is noted for having a title and a detailed programme, and for its connection with the composer's personal life and loves. This handbook situates the symphony within its time, and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception. Providing a close analysis of the symphony, its formal properties and melodic and textural elements (including harmony and counterpoint), it is a rich but accessible study which will appeal to music lovers, scholars, and students. It contains a translation of the programme, which sheds light on the form and character of each movement, and the unusual use of a melodic idée fixe representing a beloved woman. The unusual five-movement design permits a range of musical topics to be discussed and related to traditional symphonic elements: sonata form, a long Adagio, dance-type movements, and thematic development.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486298900

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In this masterpiece of "program" music — a genre invented by the composer — an obsessed musician is overcome by increasingly bizarre visions of his lover. This miniature score version is handy, inexpensive, and perfect for use in the classroom or concert hall.

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316513831

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Situates Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique within French Romanticism and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception.

Author : Genevieve Helsby
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402208251

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"Your guide to the orchestra through sounds and stories." front cover.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300091052

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This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.

Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 0312593473

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DVD contains 30 minutes of video excerpts and 16 audio tracks, keyed to the text.