Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 27)

Synopsis

In This Book, Francesca Brittan Invites Us To Listen To Fantasy, Attending Both To Literary Descriptions Of Sound In Otherworldly Narratives, And To The Wave Of Fantastique Musical Works Published In France Through The Middle Decades Of The Nineteenth Century, Including Berlioz's 1830 Symphonie Fantastique And Pieces By Liszt, Adam, Meyerbeer And Others. Introduction : Hearing Fantasy -- The Fantastique Moderne -- Épisode De La Vie D'un Artiste. Melancholy, Monomania, And The Monde Fantastique ; Le Retour à La Vie : Natural Magic And The Ideal Orchestra ; Grammatical Imaginaries -- Of Demons And Fairies. Listening In Hell ; Fairyology, Entomology, And The Scerzo Fantastique. Francesca Brittan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 326-350) And Index.