Inge van Rij

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9780521896467
• ISBN-10: 0521896460
• Artikelnr.: 42130088

Autorenporträt

Inge van Rij is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the New Zealand School of Music. Her first book, Brahms's Song Collections, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, having received substantial funding from a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is a regular presenter at international conferences, including both the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Travels with the orchestra: travel writing and Berlioz's
Orchestration Treatise; 2. Conquering other worlds: military metaphors,
virtuosity, and subjectivity in Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and Harold
en Italie; 3. Visions of other worlds: sensing the supernatural in Épisode
de la vie d'un artiste and La nonne sanglante; 4. Back to (the music of)
the future: aesthetics of technology in Berlioz's Euphonia and Damnation de
Faust; 5. Exhibiting other worlds: Les Troyens, museum culture, and human
zoos; Epilogue.