The Genesis of Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Author : Anna Stoll-Knecht
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Anna Stoll-Knecht
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Anna Stoll Knecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190491124
Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too reminiscent" of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of the Seventh based on a detailed study of Mahler's compositional materials and a close reading of the finished work. With a focus on sketches previously considered as "discarded," Stoll-Knecht exposes unexpected connections between the Seventh and both the Sixth and Meistersinger, confirming that Mahler's compositional project was firmly grounded in a dialogue with works from the past. This referential aspect acts as an important interpretive key to the work, enabling the first thorough analysis of the sketches and drafts for the Seventh, and shedding light on its complex compositional history. Considering each movement of the symphony through a double perspective, genetic and analytic, Stoll Knecht demonstrates how sketch studies and analytical approaches can interact with each other. Mahler's Seventh Symphony exposes new facets of Mahler's musical humor and leads us to rethink much-debated issues concerning the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Author : Anna Stoll Knecht
Publisher : Studies in Musical Genesis, St
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190491116
Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too reminiscent" of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of the Seventh based on a detailed study of Mahler's compositional materials and a close reading of the finished work. With a focus on sketches previously considered as "discarded," Stoll Knecht exposes unexpected connections between the Seventh and both the Sixth and Meistersinger, confirming that Mahler's compositional project was firmly grounded in a dialogue with works from the past. This referential aspect acts as an important interpretive key to the work, enabling the first thorough analysis of the sketches and drafts for the Seventh, and shedding light on its complex compositional history. Considering each movement of the symphony through a double perspective, genetic and analytic, Stoll Knecht demonstrates how sketch studies and analytical approaches can interact with each other. Mahler's Seventh Symphony exposes new facets of Mahler's musical humor and leads us to rethink much-debated issues concerning the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Author : Anna Stoll Knecht
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9780190491130
Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of Gustav Mahler's most controversial work, based on a confrontation between genetic and analytic approaches. Exposing new facets of Mahler's musical humour, this text freshly reconsiders the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Author : Gustav Mahler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486488594
A purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in mood, Mahler's seventh symphony possesses a harmonic and stylistic structure reminiscent of the journey from dusk till dawn. Miniature score study edition.
Author : Seth Monahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190266465
Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically inert? Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas offers a striking new take on this old dilemma. Indeed, it poses these questions seriously for the first time. Rather than downplaying Mahler's sonata designs as distracting anachronisms or innocuous groundplans, author Seth Monahan argues that for much of his career, Mahler used the inner, goal-directed dynamics of sonata form as the basis for some of his most gripping symphonic stories. Laying bare the deeper narrative/processual grammar of Mahler's evolving sonata corpus, Monahan pays particular attention to its recycling of large-scale rhetorical devices and its consistent linkage of tonal plot and affect. He then sets forth an interpretive framework that combines the visionary insights of Theodor W. Adorno-whose Mahler writings are examined here lucidly and at length-with elements of Hepokoski and Darcy's renowned Sonata Theory. What emerges is a tensely dialectical image of Mahler's sonata forms, one that hears the genre's compulsion for tonal/rhetorical closure in full collision with the spontaneous narrative needs of the surrounding music and of the overarching symphonic totality. It is a practice that calls forth sonata form not as a rigid mold, but as a dynamic process-rich with historical resonances and subject to a vast range of complications, curtailments, and catastrophes. With its expert balance of riveting analytical narration and thoughtful methodological reflection, Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas promises to be a landmark text of Mahler reception, and one that will reward scholars and students of the late-Romantic symphony for years to come.
Author : Gustav Mahler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486314685
Popular, accessible work by great late-Romantic composer. A purely instrumental composition that is both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909.
Author : Constantin Floros
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574672657
(Amadeus). Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.
Author : Thomas Peattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 110702708X
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.
Author : Julian Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199888205
Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.