The music of Berlioz

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 works . . 355
General index . . 361