The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Mahler PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Barham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2007-12-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.
The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Mahler PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Barham |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2007-12-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139827200 |
In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Horton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107469708 |
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 Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Title | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Franklin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1991-11-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521379472 |
Conceived as a musical picture of the natural world, the composition of Mahler's grandiose work is described here in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects.
Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Title | Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Peattie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2015-04-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316298442 |
In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a richly interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler's symphonic idiom and its radical attitude toward the presentation and ordering of musical events. The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre.
The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra PDF eBook |
Author | Colin James Lawson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003-04-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521001328 |
This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Horton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521884985 |
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.