The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz: Travels with the Orchestra
Author:   Inge van Rij (Victoria University of Wellington)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9780521896467


Pages:   370
Publication Date:   19 February 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Inge van Rij (Victoria University of Wellington)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9780521896467


ISBN 10:   0521896460
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   19 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction; 1. Travels with the orchestra: travel writing and Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise; 2. Conquering other worlds: military metaphors, virtuosity, and subjectivity in Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and Harold en Italie; 3. Visions of other worlds: sensing the supernatural in Épisode de la vie d'un artiste and La nonne sanglante; 4. Back to (the music of) the future: aesthetics of technology in Berlioz's Euphonia and Damnation de Faust; 5. Exhibiting other worlds: Les Troyens, museum culture, and human zoos; Epilogue.

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Inge van Rij is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the New Zealand School of Music. Her first book, Brahms's Song Collections, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, having received substantial funding from a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is a regular presenter at international conferences, including both the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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