Contents 
List of Tables xii
List of Abbreviations xiii
I. A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC 1
1. Provincial to Prize-Winner 3
2. The Romantic Decade 28 
3. Damnation and After 47 
II. TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS 69 
4. Implications of a Musical Biography 71 
5. Techniques of Composition 98 
6. Signs and Evocations 125 
III. THE WORKS 163 
7. The Lyric Berlioz 165 
8. Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World 192 
9. A Fantastic Symphonist 237 
10. Berlioz Dramatist 281 
Postscript 339 
Select Bibliography 348 
Index of Berlioz's worns 355 
General index 361