| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Fantasy, denial, and virtual reality in Mahler's fourth symphony / Benjamin K. Davies -- Mining the past for new expressions: song form as narrative device in Mahler's ballads from Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Molly M. Breckling -- "The earliness of Mahler's late romanticism: the poetics of the "deceptive perfect cadence" in the ninth symphony and Das Lied von der Erde / Mark Summerfield -- "Pedester ist der Musikstoff, sublim der Vortrag": Mahler's scherzos as impulses for the evolution of musical language / Mathieu Schneider -- Forming form through force: Bruckner, Mahler, and the structural function of highpoints / Alessandro Cecchi -- Die Meistersinger in Mahler's seventh symphony / Anna Stoll Knecht -- Idyllic masks of death: references to Orphée aux Enfers in "Das himmlische Leben" / Lóránt Péteri -- Mahler and the myth of the total symphony / James Buhler -- On the British reception of Ken Russell's Mahler / Eftychia Papanikolaou -- Popular music and the colloquial tone in the posthorn solos of Mahler's third symphony / Timothy Freeze -- Gustav Mahler's eighth symphony and Max Reinhardt's concept of Massenregie / Peter Revers -- The particularity of the moment / Julian Johnson -- Gustav Mahler and the aesthetics of de-identifcation / Federico Celestini -- Decadent transitions: Mahler, modernism, and the Viennese Fin de Siècle / Zoltan Roman -- Justine Mahler's Faust notebook: an introduction / Stephen E. Hefling -- Abridging Mahler's symphonies: a historical perspective / Matthew Mugmon -- Mahler and the game of history / Jeremy Barham |
| Summary |
In symphony and song, meaning and legacy, Mahler continues to present contradictory challenges. Rethinking Mahler locates the composer's music in a rich, multi-layered historical network in order to address these challenges, offering a fresh assessment of the debt he owed to his own musical and cultural past, and exploring new avenues in his posthumous reception and understanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 fast |
| Subject |
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barham, Jeremy, 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190665975 |
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0190665971 |
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9780199316113 |
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0199316112 |
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