Berlioz: Literary texts on CD with built-in search functions
This page is also available in French
We have
created and are making
available to interested viewers a searchable CD which comprises the full text in the
original French of Berlioz’s major literary works, as reproduced
on this site — the Soirées de l’Orchestre (2nd ed. 1854), Grotesques
de la Musique (1859), À
Travers Chants (1862) and the posthumous Memoirs (1870). The
CD includes also the bibliographies
of all four works drawn up by Pepijn van Doesburg. To our certain knowledge,
this is the first CD of its kind created for Berlioz.
The CD is equipped with more elaborate search functions than is available for the online version of the texts. They enable the user to search the works either individually or as a single group, using one or more keywords (all words of at least two characters are fully indexed). The search engine used is the same as those for the Concert Archive Search and Concert Listing Search on this site and makes similar use of highlights for keywords, both in the results page and in the relevant texts it points to. Except for the bibliographies the CD is in French. You may view here a reproduction of the splash screen and Home Page of the CD (the links on the latter are of course not active, except for those at the bottom of the page). Please note that the CD works only with Windows (98SE, ME, 2000, XP; if required a Vista-compatible version could be produced).
The price of
the CD is merely intended to cover the costs of production (blank CDs, jewel
cases, labels, packaging) and distribution (postage, and the transaction charge levied by PayPal on every copy sold).
The initial development costs, notably for the software required, are not included. The price varies according to the
country of destination: £3 for
the UK (first class post), £3.50
for Europe (airmail), £4 for all other countries (airmail).
If you would like
to receive a copy of this CD please send us an email specifying your postal address
and your method of payment at:
Methods of payment accepted:
(1) PayPal. You will be sent an invoice by email to be paid through PayPal.
(2) Bank cheque or Banker’s draft in pounds sterling, to be sent to our
address which will be communicated to you by email.
On receipt of your payment the CD will be sent to you by first class post (UK) or airmail (overseas).
1 February 2006
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