1300 187 187
 

Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz

Paperback

Published: 22nd February 2012
Ships: 7 to 10 business days
RRP $70.99
$63.95
10%
OFF

This book was first published in 2009. Few aspects of Berlioz's style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his formal strategies are related to the poetic and dramatic sentiments that were his very reason for being. Rodgers draws upon Berlioz's ideas about musical representation and on the ideas that would have influenced him, arguing that the relationship between musical and extra-musical narrative in Berlioz's music is best construed as metaphorical rather than literal - 'intimate' but 'indirect' in Berlioz's words. Focusing on a type of varied-repetitive form that Berlioz used to evoke poetic ideas such as mania, obsession, and meditation, the book shows how, far from disregarding form when pushing the limits of musical evocation, Berlioz harnessed its powers to convey these ideas even more vividly.

Music examples
 vi
Figures
 viii
Acknowledgments
 ix
1     Introduction
 1
2     Preliminary examples and recent theories
 11
3     Form as metaphor
 39
4     Mixing genres, mixing forms: sonata and song in Le Carnaval romain
 63
5     The vague des passions, monomania, and the first movement of the Symphonie fantastique
 85
6     Love’s emergence and fulfillment: the Scène d’amour from Roméo et Juliette
 107
7     Epilogue
 135
Notes
 141
Bibliography
 173
Index
 185

ISBN: 9781107404687
ISBN-10: 1107404681
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 200
Published: 22nd February 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 17.0  x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.33