Inge van Rij's The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz: Travels with the PDF

By Inge van Rij

ISBN-10: 0521896460

ISBN-13: 9780521896467

Berlioz often explored different worlds in his writings, from the imagined unique enchantments of latest Zealand to the jewelry of Saturn the place Beethoven's spirit used to be stated to live. The settings for his musical works are extra conservative, and his adventurousness has as a substitute been situated in his mastery of the orchestra, as either orchestrator and conductor. Inge van Rij's e-book takes a brand new method of Berlioz's therapy of the orchestra by means of exploring the connection among those types of regulate – the orchestra as summary sound, and the orchestra as collective labour and instrumental know-how. Van Rij finds that the negotiation among worlds attribute of Berlioz's writings additionally performs out in his tune: orchestral expertise might be hid or ostentatiously displayed; musical tools could be industrialised or exoticised; and the orchestral musicians themselves circulation among being a society of special contributors and being a computing device performed by means of Berlioz himself.

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