Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz - Travels With the Orchestra

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Inge van Rij, RIJ INGE VAN, Inge van Rij, Inge (Victoria University of Wellington) van Rij
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108814010
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81401-0
• No. of pages: 369
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, Theory of music & musicology, Music reviews & criticism, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti