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Book SynopsisThe Music of Berlioz offers an overall view of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003, and in doing so is the first such study to deal fully with the rediscovered Messe solennelle. It synthesizes previous scholarship, including the author's own, adding many new observations, together with information and insight into all the composer's works.
Trade Review...magnificent study... * Andrew Thomson, Musical Times *
Rushton shows his true vocation as pedagogue, for the musical detail contained within these sections forms a fine analytical study for Berlioz's major works which every university library should have on its shelves. * Clair Rowden, Nineteenth-Century Music Review *
... carefully researched, often provocative ... interesting new views. * Music and Letters *
Julian Rushton is well known and highly regarded as a leading Berlioz scholar ... whose detailed knowledge of Berlioz's oeuvre is astonishing. * Music and Letters *
... carefully written. * Musical Times *
Rushton's generous humanity and emotional maturity constantly shine through the constant stream of marvellous insights. * Musical Times *
A most distinguished and penetrating study. * Musical Times *
Fascinating ... Rushton has superbly perceptive pages on works he particularly admires. * BBC Music Magazine *
Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Abbreviations ; I: A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC ; 1. Provincial to Prize-Winner ; 2. The Romantic Decade ; 3. Damnation and After ; II: TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS ; 4. Implications of a Musical Biography ; 5. Techniques of Composition ; 6. Signs and Evocations ; III: THE WORKS ; 7. The Lyric Berlioz ; 8. Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World ; 9. A Fantastic Symphonist ; 10. Berlioz Dramatist ; Bibliography ; Index of Berlioz's Works ; General Index
