Inge van Rij

Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz (eBook, ePUB)

Travels with the Orchestra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Berlioz frequently explored other worlds in his writings, from the imagined exotic enchantments of New Zealand to the rings of Saturn where Beethoven's spirit was said to reside. The settings for his musical works are more conservative, and his adventurousness has instead been located in his mastery of the orchestra, as both orchestrator and conductor. Inge van Rij's book takes a new approach to Berlioz's treatment of the orchestra by exploring the relationship between these two forms of control - the orchestra as abstract sound, and the orchestra as collective labour and instrumental technology. Van Rij reveals that the negotiation between worlds characteristic of Berlioz's writings also plays out in his music: orchestral technology may be concealed or ostentatiously displayed; musical instruments might be industrialised or exoticised; and the orchestral musicians themselves move between being a society of distinctive individuals and being a machine played by Berlioz himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316233962
• Artikelnr.: 53009342

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.