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The musical madhouse = Les grotesques de la musique /
"The Musical Madhouse is the first complete translation into English of Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique. It is the funniest of all his works, and consists of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and comments on the absurdities of concert life. Alastair Bruce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Rochester :
University of Rochester Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Eastman studies in music.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Hugh Macdonald
- Letter from the Chorus of the Opera to the Author
- The Author's Reply to the Chorus of the Opera
- The right to play a symphony in the wrong key
- A crowned virtuoso
- A new musical instrument
- The regiment of colonels
- A cantata
- A programme of grotesque music
- Is it a joke?
- The evangelist of the drum
- The apostle of the flageolet
- The prophet of the trombone
- Conductors
- Appreciators of Beethoven
- The Sontag version
- You can't dance in E
- Kissed by Rossini
- A clarinet concerto
- Musical instruments at the Universal Exhibition
- A rival to Erard
- Diplomatic Correspondence: Letter addressed to H.M. Aimata Pomare, Queen of Tahiti
- Prudence and sagacity of a provincial
- Alexandre's melodium
- The tromba marina
- The saxophone
- Experts in instrumentation
- Jaguarita
- Female savages
- The Astucio family
- Marriages of convenience
- Great news
- More news
- Barley sugar
- Heavy music
- The Evil Eye
- Ordinary music lovers and serious music
- Lamentations of Jeremiah
- A model critic
- Dramatic emphasis
- Success of a Miserere
- The season
- The bugbears' club
- Minor irritations of major concerts
- 20 francs per ticket
- War on flats
- Scientific Correspondence
- Plombieres and Baden, 1st letter
- Plombieres and Baden, 2nd letter
- Aural aberrations and delusions
- Philosophical Correspondence: A letter to Monsieur Ella
- The debutante
- The Director of the Opera's despotism
- The song of cockerels
- The cockerels of song
- Sparrows.