Books written by Julian Rushton
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Mozart
... 113, 201 D'Ettore, Guglielmo, 28 Eybler, Joseph Leopold von, 231, 236, 245 Favart, Charles-Simon, 118 Ferdinand, Archduke, 28, 29 Ferlendis, Giuseppe, 100 Ferrarese del Bene, Adriana, 128, 205–6, 207 Firmian, Count Karl Joseph, 26, ...
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Dramma Giocoso: Four Contemporary Perspectives on the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas
... dancing in La grotta di Trofonio.38 A few months after Figaro, late in 1786, Storace played Sofronia in Gli equivoci, ... But 'Potessi di piangere' is not a rondò: it is a ternary form, in C major, based (for no obvious reason) on a ...
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The Music of Berlioz
The libretto is loosely derived from an episode in Matthew Lewis's gothic novel The Monk . Berlioz was well under way with the composition in 1841-2 , but set it aside , not wishing to expend time where there was no definite commitment ...
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Elgar: Enigma Variations
Appearing in the centenary year of the work's composition, this book elucidates what is known, and what has been said about the work and the enigma, and directs future listeners to what matters most: the inspired qualities of the music.
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Coffee with Mozart
Presents a fictionalized interview with Mozart, where the eighteenth-century Austrian composer discusses his life, his music, and his times.
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The Musical Language of Berlioz
Berlioz was never wholly in tune with his fellow artists of Gautier's trinity of French romanticism : Hugo , Delacroix , Berlioz . Delacroix could not stomach Berlioz , failing to perceive the classical restraint he so loved in Mozart ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Elgar
Cambridge Companions to Music THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EDWARD ELGAR Edward Elgar occupies a ... L. Balthazar Instruments The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments Edited by Trevor Herbert and John Wallace The Cambridge Companion to ...
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W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni
It is now about 10 p.m .; Leporello appears directly from his previous escape . It is not clear whether the Commendatore's statue is meant to be equestrian . ) Scene 11 ( Recitative ) . Giovanni leaps over the wall , laughing .
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Let Beauty Awake: Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Literature
Proceedings of a symposium jointly organised by the Elgar Societu and Vaughan Williams Society and held at the British Library, London in November 2008.
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Berlioz
2 go deeper than the mere events required to symbolize the emotional growth of an adolescent ( whose feelings were doubtless based on Berlioz's remembered experience ) : the self - absorption of the wandering opening , the gradual focus ...
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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music
This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire.
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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music
This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire.
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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music
... Victorian Theatre 1792–1914: A Survey, 2nd edn (Cambridge: CUP, 1978), 66; Booth, Theatre in the Victorian Age, 194–7; and idem, Prefaces to English Nineteenth-Century Theatre (Manchester: MUP, n.d.), 173–90. 24 Burlesque also has a ...
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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, C. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone
... Music Jeremy Dibble The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London Christina Bashford Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England Suzanne Cole The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602–1645 John Cunningham ...
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Classical Music: A Concise History from Gluck to Beethoven
Portrays the musical era between 1750 and 1830 against its intellectual and cultural background and describes both its famous and obscure composers This is a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven containing 50 illustrations.
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
... ( La Révolution grecque , 1825-6 ) , but the composer , still nominally a student , had yet to gain a reputation equal to that of Hugo or Delacroix . That changed in 1830 , when works by each of the ' trinity ' reshaped the artistic ...