Inge van Rij

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz

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Produktbeschreibung

The negotiation between worlds that is characteristic of Berlioz's writings also plays out in his music. Inge van Rij's book combines historical, critical and analytical approaches to a selection of key works by the composer to offer new ways of thinking about the sights and sounds of the orchestra.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781108814010
• ISBN-10: 1108814018
• Artikelnr.: 59378582

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.