Art of Music and Other Essays (a Travers Chants)

Name: Art of Music and Other Essays (a Travers Chants)
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ISBN: 9780253311641

ISBN-10: 0253311640

ISBN-13: 9780253311641

Edition: 1994 (Annotated)

Authors: Hector Berlioz, Hector Berlioz, Hector Berlioz, Hector Berlioz

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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. His essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies; Wagner and the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols--Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is even an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch, an issue still of vital interest. But they also contain biting satire and ridicule--of opera singers, of the Academy, of dilettantism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with…

Book details

Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



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Translatorï¿½s Note


Acknowledgments


The Art of MusicA Critical Study of Beethovenï¿½s Nine Symphonies


A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven


Fidelio Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn


The Emoluments of Singers


The Current State of the Art of Singing


Good Singers and BadGluckï¿½s Orphee


Lines Written Soon After the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique


The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi


The Revival of Gluckï¿½s Alceste at the Opera


Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old MastersHigh and Low Sounds


Der Freischutz Oberon Abu-Hassan


The Abduction from the Seraglio


The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments


On Church Music Musical Customs of China


Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institue


The Rise in Concert Pitch


The End Is Near


The Richard Wagner Concerts


Sunt Lacrymae Rerum


The Symphonies of



Stephen Heller Romeo



Concerning a Ballet Based on Faust


To Be or Not to Be


Appendix: The Lapdog School


Notes


Index