Music speaks : on the language of opera, dance, and song / by Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015

Table of Contents: “…Music's Pentecost, music's stupidity -- Heine and the composers -- The diabolical Senta -- Les Troyens : the undoing of opera -- Far sounds in Zemlinsky and Schreker -- Butchering Moses -- Elliott Carter and poetry : listening to, listening through -- Sophoclean opera -- Belletristic music in the twentieth century -- Golden calves : the role of dance in opera -- Elephant swan space grace.…”
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The other worlds of Hector Berlioz : travels with the orchestra / by Van Rij, Inge

Table of Contents: “…Travels with the orchestra: Travel writing and Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise -- Conquering other worlds: Military metaphors, virtuosity, and subjectivity in Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and Harold en Italie -- Visions of other worlds: Sensing the supernatural in Épisode de la vie d'un artiste and La nonne sanglante -- Back to (the music of) the future: Aesthetics of technology in Berlioz's Euphonia and Damnation de Faust -- Exhibiting other worlds: Les Troyens, museum culture, and human zoos.…”
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Epic Visions : Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception. by Lovatt, Helen

Table of Contents: “…; Losing (sight of) Rhesus; 2 Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil; Opera and epic*; Trojan visions; How epic is Les Troyens?; The Trojan horse; The death of Dido; 3 Visualising Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica; Introduction; Epiphany and recognition at Lemnos.…”
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