Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Part of New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Author: Julian Rushton, University of Leeds
- Date Published: November 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009074889
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Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is noted for having a title and a detailed programme, and for its connection with the composer's personal life and loves. This handbook situates the symphony within its time, and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception. Providing a close analysis of the symphony, its formal properties and melodic and textural elements (including harmony and counterpoint), it is a rich but accessible study which will appeal to music lovers, scholars, and students. It contains a translation of the programme, which sheds light on the form and character of each movement, and the unusual use of a melodic idée fixe representing a beloved woman. The unusual five-movement design permits a range of musical topics to be discussed and related to traditional symphonic elements: sonata form, a long Adagio, dance-type movements, and thematic development.
Read more- Includes close analysis of the symphony, its formal properties and melodic and textural elements (including harmony and counterpoint)
- Explores the interaction of a creative artist's personal life and work, and the balancing of the expressive imperative with requirements of musical form as a framework of communication
- Contains a translation of the programme, which sheds light onto the form and character of each movement
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- Date Published: November 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009074889
- length: 180 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 9 mm
- weight: 0.23kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, programme, outline
2. Literary and musical romanticism
3. Symphonie fantastique in Berlioz's lifetime
4. First movement: 'RĂŞveries, passions'
5. Second movement: 'Un bal'
6. Third movement: 'Scène aux champs'
7. Fourth movement: 'Marche au supplice'
8. Fifth movement: 'Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat'
9. The sequel
reception by composers
10. Reception: Schumann and musical form
11. Other approaches
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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