Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486215631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486215631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486215631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
The Life of Hector Berlioz
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Berlioz and His Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226038612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226038612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."
Berlioz
Author: David Cairns
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.
Treatise on Instrumentation
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
This influential work appraises the musical qualities and potential of over 60 stringed, wind, and percussion instruments. Includes 150 full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, others. Foreword by Richard Strauss.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486269030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
This influential work appraises the musical qualities and potential of over 60 stringed, wind, and percussion instruments. Includes 150 full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, others. Foreword by Richard Strauss.
Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
Author: David Trippett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111250
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111250
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz
Author: Inge Van Rij
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316252871
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316252871
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.
Notes of a Pianist
Author: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Extra Lives
Author: Tom Bissell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307474313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games. In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they are so appealing, and what they are capable of artistically. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is a milestone work about what might be the dominant popular art form of our time.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307474313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games. In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they are so appealing, and what they are capable of artistically. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is a milestone work about what might be the dominant popular art form of our time.