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Tables of Contents for The Music of Berlioz
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
xii
List of Abbreviations
xiii
I. A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC
1
68
Provincial to Prize-Winner
3
25
Sources
3
1
La Cote-Saint-Andre
4
3
Paris
7
1
Compositions to 1825
8
3
The Ferrand era
11
3
The Prix de Rome
14
10
Opus 1
24
4
The Romantic Decade
28
19
Symphonie Fantastique
28
2
Italie!
30
4
Le retour de I'artiste d'Italie
34
2
Italian music
36
1
The artist as hero
37
3
Grande messe des morts
40
1
Romeo et Juliette
41
3
End of the romantic decade
44
3
Damnation and After
47
22
Les annees mysterieuses
47
3
The salvaging of Faust
50
2
Purgatory
52
3
Writing a Te Deum
55
3
Empire and religion
58
3
Les Troyens
61
4
Swan songs
65
4
II. TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS
69
94
Implications of a Musical Biography
71
27
Intertextuality and the musical work
71
2
A typology of borrowing
73
9
Hermeneutics
82
2
Words and music
84
14
Techniques of Composition
98
27
Musical language
98
3
Compositional process
101
6
The Messe solennelle and counterpoint
107
5
Harmony revisited
112
6
Harmony and expression
118
3
The outre: `Le Ballet des ombres'
121
4
Signs and Evocations
125
38
Introduction
125
1
Topics and rhetoric
126
7
The grotesque, the supernatural, the sublime
133
6
Death and life, heaven and hell
139
4
Exoticism, eroticism, and love
143
12
Programmes
155
8
III. THE WORKS
163
176
The Lyric Berlioz
165
27
Romance, ballad, and `Gothic Song'
165
13
After Irlande: romance to melodie
178
1
The mature melodie
179
6
Small choral works
185
2
Arias in dramatic works
187
5
Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World
192
45
`Paris vaut une messe'
192
11
A second vision of judgement: Grande messe des morts
203
13
Architecture and patriotic fervour
216
4
Te Deum
220
17
A Fantastic Symphonist
237
44
Orchestral rhetoric: first essays
237
14
Symphonie fantastique
251
15
Brigands in the mountains: Harold en Italie
266
3
Italian Liebestod: `Romeo au tombeau'
269
6
Genre: the last symphonic works
275
6
Berlioz Dramatist
281
58
Introduction
281
10
Benvenuto Cellini, `Petit opera semi-seria'
291
12
Concert opera: dramatic legend
303
12
L'Enfance du Christ: Oratorium einer Zukunftsmusiker?
315
9
Les Troyens, Tragedie lyrique
324
15
Postscript
339
9
Beatrice et Benedict
339
1
Posterity
340
4
Berlioz conservative or radical? Success or failure?
344
4
Select Bibliography
348
7
Index of Berlioz's works
355
6
General index
361