This book contains nine essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great nineteenth-century musician's life and work. Among the pieces studied closely are Romeo et Juliette, La Damnation de Faust and Les Nuits d' été. An essay on newly discovered documents gives us a revealing portrait of the artist as a young man; another essay which examines little studied manuscripts shows us how precisely Berlioz arranged Gluck's celebrated opera Orphée. The practical question of Berlioz's metronome marks are studied thoroughly for the first time, and the volume closes with a novel piece in dialogue form by the elder statesman of Berlioz scholars, Jacques Barzun, who treats with exceptional grace the profound issues raised by Berlioz the man and the musician.
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This book contains nine essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great nineteenth-century musician's life and work. Among the pieces studied closely are Romeo et Juliette, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Nuits d'été.
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Traditions preserved in families, whether about the individual members or about family matters, can sometimes be of great importance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sort cru, toucher par mes pleurs, les lagunes, sort est amer, viens rendre, choral recitative, instrumental recitative, des enfers, mon mal, flamme qui, rondo theme, oboe melody, tomb scene, sans amour, metronome marks, mon sein, second prologue, symphonie fantastique, des ombres, orchestral version, vocal score, balcony scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Troyens, Pauline Viardot, Benvenuto Cellini, New York, Hector Berlioz, Hugh Macdonald, Friar Laurence, Neue Zeitschrift, Peter Bloom, L'Enfance du Christ, Goethe's Faust, Prix de Rome, Nancy Berlioz, Reboul-Berlioz Collection, Ritter Berlioz, David Cairns, Don Giovanni, Harriet Smithson, Jacques Barzun, Julian Rushton, Julien Tiersot, Les Francs-Juges, New Haven, Nicolas Marmion, Ninth Symphony New!
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Traditions preserved in families, whether about the individual members or about family matters, can sometimes be of great importance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sort cru, toucher par mes pleurs, les lagunes, sort est amer, viens rendre, choral recitative, instrumental recitative, des enfers, mon mal, flamme qui, rondo theme, oboe melody, tomb scene, sans amour, metronome marks, mon sein, second prologue, symphonie fantastique, des ombres, orchestral version, vocal score, balcony scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Troyens, Pauline Viardot, Benvenuto Cellini, New York, Hector Berlioz, Hugh Macdonald, Friar Laurence, Neue Zeitschrift, Peter Bloom, L'Enfance du Christ, Goethe's Faust, Prix de Rome, Nancy Berlioz, Reboul-Berlioz Collection, Ritter Berlioz, David Cairns, Don Giovanni, Harriet Smithson, Jacques Barzun, Julian Rushton, Julien Tiersot, Les Francs-Juges, New Haven, Nicolas Marmion, Ninth Symphony New!
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- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- The Musical Language of Berlioz (Cambridge Studies in Music) by Julian Rushton in Front Matter, page 119, and page 178
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- The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Peter Bloom on 11 pages
- Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 1834-80 by Katharine Ellis on 5 pages
- Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Julian Rushton on 4 pages
- The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Colin Lawson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms by Jolanta T. Pekacz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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