Few aspects of Berlioz's style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his form

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companio

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.