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MusicandFantasyintheAgeofBerlioz ThecentralityoffantasytoFrenchliteraryculturehaslongbeen acceptedbycritics,butthesonorousdimensionsofthemodeandits widerimplicationsformusicalproductionhavegonelargelyunexplored. Inthisbook,FrancescaBrittaninvitesustolistentofantasy,attendingboth toliterarydescriptionsofsoundinotherworldlynarrativesandtothewave of“fantastique”musicalworkspublishedinFrancethroughthemiddle decadesofthenineteenthcentury,includingBerlioz’s1830Symphonie fantastiqueandpiecesbyLiszt,Adam,Meyerbeer,andothers.Followingthe musico-literaryaestheticsofE.T.A.Hoffmann,suchworksallowedwaking anddreaming,realityandunrealitytoconverge,yokingfairysoundtoinsect song,demonicnoisetocolonial“babbling,”anddivinemusictothestrains ofwaterandwind.FantasticsoundworldsdisruptedFrance’snative traditionofmarvelousillusion,replacingitwithanewformofmagical materialisminextricablefromrepublicanactivism,theologicalheterodoxy, andtheadventof“radical”romanticism. FrancescaBrittanisAssistantProfessorofMusicatCaseWestern ReserveUniversity.Herworkfocusesonmusicofthelongnineteenth century,andhasbeenpublishedinarangeofscholarlyjournalsincluding 19th-CenturyMusic,theJournaloftheAmericanMusicologicalSociety, andtheJournalofPopularMusicStudies.Shewasthe2012winnerofthe AmericanMusicologicalSociety’sAlfredEinsteinAward. NewPerspectivesinMusicHistoryandCriticism Generaleditors JeffreyKallberg,AnthonyNewcomb,andRuthSolie Thisseriesexplorestheconceptualframeworksthatshapeorhaveshaped thewaysinwhichweunderstandmusicanditshistory,andaimsto elaboratestructuresofexplanation,interpretation,commentary,and criticismwhichmakemusicintelligibleandwhichprovideabasisfor argumentaboutjudgmentsofvalue.Theintellectualscopeoftheseriesis broad.Someinvestigationswilltreat,forexample,historiographicaltopics, otherswillapplycross-disciplinarymethodstothecriticismofmusic,and therewillalsobestudieswhichconsidermusicinitsrelationtosociety, culture,andpolitics.Overall,theserieshopestocreateagreaterpresencefor musicintheongoingdiscourseamongthehumansciences. Publishedtitles LeslieC.DunnandNancyA.Jones(eds.),EmbodiedVoices:Representing FemaleVocalityinWesternCulture DowningA.Thomas,MusicandtheOriginsofLanguage:Theoriesfromthe FrenchEnlightenment ThomasS.Grey,Wagner’sMusicalProse DanielK.L.Chua,AbsoluteMusicandtheConstructionofMeaning AdamKrims,RapMusicandthePoeticsofIdentity AnnetteRichards,TheFreeFantasiaandtheMusicalPicturesque RichardWill,TheCharacteristicSymphonyintheAgeofHaydnand Beethoven ChristopherMorris,ReadingOperabetweentheLines:OrchestralInterludes andCulturalMeaningfromWagnertoBerg EmmaDillon,MedievalMusic-Makingandthe‘RomandeFauvel’ DavidYearsley,BachandtheMeaningsofCounterpoint DavidMetzer,QuotationandCulturalMeaningintheTwentiethCentury AlexanderRehding,HugoRiemannandtheBirthofModernMusical Thought DanaGooley,TheVirtuosoLiszt BonnieGordon,Monteverdi’sUnrulyWomen:ThePowerofSonginEarly ModernItaly GaryTomlinson,TheSingingoftheNewWorld:IndigenousVoiceintheEra ofEuropeanContact MatthewGelbart,TheInventionofFolkMusicandArtMusic:Emerging CategoriesfromOssiantoWagner OliviaA.Bloechl,NativeAmericanSongattheFrontiersofEarlyModern Music GiuseppeGerbino,MusicandtheMythofArcadiainRenaissanceItaly RogerFreitas,PortraitofaCastrato:Politics,Patronage,andMusicinthe LifeofAttoMelani GundulaKreuzer,VerdiandtheGermans:FromUnificationtotheThird Reich HollyWatkins,MetaphorsofDepthinGermanMusicalThought:From E.T.A.HoffmanntoArnoldSchoenberg DaviniaCaddy,TheBalletsRussesandBeyond:MusicandDanceinBelle ÉpoqueParis BrigidCohen,StefanWolpeandtheAvant-GardeDiaspora NicholasMathew,PoliticalBeethoven JulieBrown,SchoenbergandRedemption PhyllisWeliver,MaryGladstoneandtheVictorianSalon:Music,Literature, Liberalism FrancescaBrittan,MusicandFantasyintheAgeofBerlioz Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz Francesca Brittan CaseWesternReserveUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 4843/24,2ndFloor,AnsariRoad,Daryaganj,Delhi–110002,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:http://www.cambridge.org/9781107136328 DOI:10.1017/9781316479803 ©FrancescaBrittan2017 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2017 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Brittan,Francescaauthor. Title:MusicandfantasyintheageofBerlioz/FrancescaBrittan. Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,2017.| Series:Newperspectivesinmusichistoryandcriticism|Includesbibliographicalreferences. Identifiers:LCCN2017024708|ISBN9781107136328 Subjects:LCSH:Fantastic,The,inmusic–History–19thcentury.|Musicand literature–History–19thcentury.|Music–19thcentury–Historyandcriticism. Classification:LCCML3849.B8372017|DDC780.944/09034–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017024708 ISBN978-1-107-13632-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ForNicholas Contents ListofFiguresandTable pagex ListofMusicExamples xii Acknowledgments xiv NoteonTranslations xvi ListofAbbreviations xvii Introduction:HearingFantasy 1 1 TheFantastiquemoderne 14 Épisodedelavied’unartiste 51 2 Melancholy,Monomania,andtheMondefantastique 53 3 LeRetouràlavie:NaturalMagicandtheIdealOrchestra 89 4 GrammaticalImaginaries 136 OfDemonsandFairies 189 5 ListeninginHell 191 6 Fairyology,Entomology,andtheScherzofantastique 268 Bibliography 326 Index 351