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Berlioz's Semi-Operas »

Authors: Daniel Albright
ISBN-13: 9781580460941, ISBN-10: 1580460941
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Daniel Albright

Book Synopsis

A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts.

	List of Illustrations	vii
	List of Music Examples	ix
	Preface	xi
I.	Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet	1
1.	Introduction	1
2.	The Veronese Social Code	2
3.	The Code of Love	12
4.	Love against Language	21
II.	From Shakespeare to Berlioz	29
1.	The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet	29
2.	La lance branlee	34
III.	Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette	39
1.	Berlioz in the Plural	39
2.	Romeo et Juliette: Introduction and Prologue	45
3.	Romeo et Juliette: The Symphony	55
4.	Romeo et Juliette: The Opera Resumes	71
IV.	Goethe's Faust	81
1.	Introduction	81
2.	Getting Lost in Domains of Desire	82
3.	The Garden of Forking Paths	87
4.	A Real Girl	89
5.	Wall-purging	93
6.	Fairy Optics	96
7.	Traveling South	97
8.	Rhymes and Similes	100
V.	From Goethe to Berlioz	106
1.	Goethe in France	106
VI.	Berlioz's La damnation de Faust	110
1.	The Anti-Faust	110
2.	Berlioz contra Goethe	112
3.	Psychological Melodies	115
4.	Feigned Opera	120
5.	The Dismemberment of Berlioz	130
6.	Toward Gounod	132
	Notes	133
	Biblography of Works Cited	138
	Index	141