This book is an analytical and critical study of Berlioz's unique musical style. It does not undertake to analyse all his works, but rather to separate characte

Though studying opera often requires attention to aesthetics, libretti, staging, singers, compositional history, and performance history, the music itself is ce

This book examines how Berlioz used musical forms to represent a narrative, and to depict emotions such as madness or love.

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise