Introduction: Berlioz and the Pantheon

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Permissions and Credits vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Berlioz and the Pantheon 1
6. ESSAYS I
7. The Language of Prophecy in Les Troyens 22
8. “Ossianic Sounds”: Berlioz on Memory 49
9. Berlioz contra Rousseau: Nature, Culture, and la musique descriptive 71
10. OBJECT LESSONS I
11. Berlioz’s Virgil 96
12. Inevitable Antagonists: Berlioz and Donizetti 107
13. Hearing the Hostias, Rehearing the Requiem 115
14. ESSAYS II
15. Orchestral Futurisms: Berlioz and Science Fiction 128
16. Passing the Baton: Conducting Masculinity in La damnation de Faust 155
17. On Berlioz’s Subterranean Operations: Toward a Nineteenth-Century Media Logic 181
18. OBJECT LESSONS II
19. Euphonian Sound and Fury, Signifying Something 202
20. Berlioz: Conductor and One-Man Band 209
21. “Je crois en vous” 219
22. ESSAYS III
23. American Episodes in the Life of the Artist 228
24. A Comet in the Musical Sky: Ferdinand Hiller on Hector Berlioz 259
25. Intimate Beauty and Sublime Grandeur: Sound and Space in the Music of Berlioz 285
26. Index 329
27. Notes on the Contributors 339