The Dramatic and Musical Unity of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens
Description:
The discussion concentrates on Hector Berlioz's second opera, Les Troyens, which is Berlioz's final large work written between 1855-1858. The study demonstrates how the opera is unified through its drama and music. Les Troyens, a five-act tragic opera that is based on Virgil's Aeneid, is perhaps one of Berlioz's least known major works. The orchestral score had not been published in its entirety until 1969, when a two-volume edition of the opera was published by Bärenreiter in the New Edition o…
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Date:
August 1973
Creator:
Menn, Marta C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries