Hector Berlioz: Miscellaneous Studies

This volume inaugurates the series of Studies of the twice-yearly journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal of 18th and 19th-Century Instrumental Music. These publications are devoted to individual composers who have made a significant impact in the field of instrumental music. In this way they remain securely within the journal?s area of interest, though without actually imposing strict limits on the specific themes treated, given that the entire output of the composers concerned may be taken into account, not just the instrumental music. As in the case of Hector Berlioz (Côte-St. André, 1803 - Paris, 1869), the composer chosen for the present volume. This collection of miscellaneous studies ranges widely, therefore, from his instrumental production to the operas, also taking in his contributions to music criticism and the theoretical literature.

CONTENIDO:

Preface - Prefazione
Abbreviations

- Introduction
Julian Rushton: Berlioz Nationalist, Berlioz Internationalist?

- Text and Context
Guillaume Bordry: «Ma carrière est finie»: Berlioz et le chant de la nostalgie
Katharine Ellis: Berlioz, the Sublime, and the Broderie Problem
Claudio Bolzan: Il teatro immaginario di Hector Berlioz nella società e nella cultura del tempo

- Analysis
Diana Bickley: «Ouverture du Corsaire»
Laura Cosso: Il tema della natura in Berlioz: appunti per una riflessione
Mark A. Pottinger: The Gothic in Berlioz?s «La nonne sanglante» and the «Grand traité d?instrumentation»

- Documents
Alban Ramaut: Hector Berlioz un article oublié?
Cécile Reynaud: Stephen Heller et Hector Berlioz: regards croisés

- History of Reception
Michela Niccolai: Berlioz all?Opéra-Comique (1892): annotazioni in margine alla mise en scène dei «Troyens à Carthage»
Roberto Illiano: Il trattato di orchestrazione di Berlioz: appunti inediti di Luigi Dallapiccola
Lesley A. Wright: Berlioz in 1903: The Centennial in France

Index of Names