Berlioz'
Mémoires
(1870) and Delacroix's
Journal
(1893) are commonly seen as two of the greatest records of Romantic creativity. They also share a common background in French Romanticism, and are ...powerful instances of two great forms of autobiographical writing. This essay takes these features into account, but also contrasts the two Romantic artists - and human individuals - recorded in these books.
In his 1837 article 'Strauss: His Orchestra, His Waltzes – the Future of Rhythm', Berlioz advocates treating rhythm as an independent dimension just as fundamental to music as melody and harmony. He ...observes that 'the combinations in the realm of rhythm must certainly be as numerous as melodic ones, and the links between them could be made as interesting as for melody. Nothing can be more obvious than that there are rhythmic dissonances, rhythmic consonances, and rhythmic modulations' The true pioneers in the field of rhythm, he continues, are Beethoven and Weber -and Johann Strauss Sr. I continue Berlioz's line of thought by examining the use of two-beat melodic grouping patterns within a notated 3/4 metre by Strauss and his near-contemporary, Joseph Lanner, to create rhythmic dissonances, which often (but not necessarily) take the form of melodic hemiola, metrical modulation, and extended anacrusis. My article concludes with some general considerations on the expressive, formal and choreographical implications of metrical dissonance as it relates to the dancers on the Viennese ballroom floor.
Media Byerly, Alison
Victorian literature and culture,
01/2018, Letnik:
46, Številka:
3-4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...mediation, broadly defined, was a defining aesthetic of the period, and one could argue that the field of media studies properly begins with the nineteenth century. The reduced cost and improved ...quality of printing led to a boom in mass distribution of paper advertising products, such as leaflets, brochures, and pamphlets, as well as paper novelties, like paper dolls, cardboard toy theaters, fold-out panoramas, greeting cards, and cartes de visite featuring photographic portraits. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995); Thomas Richard, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851 to 1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990); Jennifer Wicke, Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertising, and Social Reading (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
The transnational opera market of the nineteenth century was greatly influenced by the leading prima donnas of the time, who through their personal repertories exercised a direct impact on the ...international repertoire of opera houses' chosen productions. This study evaluates the influence of Pauline Viardot-García, Therese Tietjens, and Rosa Csillag on both the international reception as well as the transfer of Christoph Willibald Gluck's works. Stagings of his operas together with performances of his arias, which were by comparison much more prevalent, are hereby considered with regard to the general critical reception of his music at that time.
The musical instrument is not to be seen in isolation from the music in which it intervenes but through which it exists as a musical instrument. Elements to define the musical instrument are put ...forward in relation to Berlioz's idea of "the body of sound used by the composer". The emphasis is then put on the part played by the technique and the practice of the instrument. The various forms constitutive of the identity of the instrument and its potentials are then described (the specific elements of sound that it has to produce as well as the new possibilities the instrument will open up in the course of its history.)
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