An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implications for m

Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective e