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• catalog abstract "Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and author. According to Harold Schonberg, he was the "foremost music critic of his time, possibly of all time." A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China. But Berlioz's writings also contain biting satire and ridicule - of opera singers, of the Academy, of dilettantism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime. Berlioz's writings are a treasure-house of information on nineteenth-century musical life, performance practice, and taste.".
• catalog alternative "A travers chants. English".
• catalog contributor b4343908.
• catalog contributor b4343909.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Foreword / Jacques Barzun -- The Art of Music -- A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies -- A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven -- Fidelio -- Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn -- The Emoluments of Singers -- The Current State of the Art of Singing -- Good Singers and Bad -- Gluck's Orphee -- Lines Written Soon after the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique -- The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi -- The Revival of Gluck's Alceste at the Opera -- Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old Masters -- High and Low Sounds -- Der Freischutz -- Oberon -- Abu-Hassan; The Abduction from the Seraglio -- The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments -- On Church Music -- Musical Customs of China -- Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute -- The Rise in Concert Pitch -- The End Is Near -- The Richard Wagner Concerts -- Sunt Lacrymae Rerum -- The Symphonies of H. Reber; Stephen Heller.".
• catalog description "Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and author. According to Harold Schonberg, he was the "foremost music critic of his time, possibly of all time." A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China. But Berlioz's writings also contain biting satire and ridicule - of opera singers, of the Academy, of dilettantism.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime. Berlioz's writings are a treasure-house of information on nineteenth-century musical life, performance practice, and taste.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 274 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Art of music and other essays.".
• catalog identifier "0253311640".
• catalog isFormatOf "Art of music and other essays.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
• catalog relation "Art of music and other essays.".
• catalog subject "780 20".
• catalog subject "ML410.B5 A543 1994".
• catalog subject "Music History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Jacques Barzun -- The Art of Music -- A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies -- A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven -- Fidelio -- Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn -- The Emoluments of Singers -- The Current State of the Art of Singing -- Good Singers and Bad -- Gluck's Orphee -- Lines Written Soon after the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique -- The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi -- The Revival of Gluck's Alceste at the Opera -- Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old Masters -- High and Low Sounds -- Der Freischutz -- Oberon -- Abu-Hassan; The Abduction from the Seraglio -- The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments -- On Church Music -- Musical Customs of China -- Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute -- The Rise in Concert Pitch -- The End Is Near -- The Richard Wagner Concerts -- Sunt Lacrymae Rerum -- The Symphonies of H. Reber; Stephen Heller.".
• catalog title "A travers chants. English".
• catalog title "The art of music and other essays = (A travers chants) / Hector Berlioz ; translated and edited by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".