Discovering Mahler

Author : Ian Christians
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473888173

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Discovering Classical Music: Mahler by Ian Christians Pdf

"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.This volume concentrates on the life, personality and music of Edward William Elgar.

Author : Carl Niekerk
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781571134677

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Reading Mahler by Carl Niekerk Pdf

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123347796

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Discovering Mahler by Donald Mitchell Pdf

Beginning with a survey of Mahler's music, this work presents an examination of the revelatory role of the performer. It also includes a section that consists of major lectures and celebratory essays.

Author : Thomas Peattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027084

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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes by Thomas Peattie Pdf

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 : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:845890966

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Discovering Mahler by Donald Mitchell Pdf

Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190665968

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Rethinking Mahler by Jeremy Barham Pdf

Author : Jens Malte Fischer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300134445

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Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer Pdf

Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.

Author : Julian Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199707089

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Mahler's Voices by Julian Johnson Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Stoll Knecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190491123

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Mahler's Seventh Symphony by Anna Stoll Knecht Pdf

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 : Seth Monahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199303472

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Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas by Seth Monahan Pdf

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 : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400096572

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Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht Pdf

Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.

Author : Matthew Mugmon
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469647

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Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler by Matthew Mugmon Pdf

Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.

Author : Susan M. Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135946692

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Gustav and Alma Mahler by Susan M. Filler Pdf

This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.

Author : Ian Christians
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473887879

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Discovering Classical Music by Ian Christians Pdf

A newbie’s comprehensive guide to the joys of classical music, including introductions to forty of its greatest composers. Musical tastes may change, but the great classical composers maintain a devoted fan base—for centuries. For anyone who’s interested in classical music but finds it a bit intimidating or confusing, passionate fan and former music-industry executive Ian Christians has developed a unique approach to the genre, designed to make it as easy as possible for new listeners to explore with confidence. With a distinctly unsnobbish air, Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the most legendary composers, taking you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for years of continued discovery and enjoyment. “I recommend [this book] wholeheartedly to new music lovers everywhere.” —Sir Charles Groves, CBE, from the Foreword

Author : Arved Ashby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538104873

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Experiencing Mahler by Arved Ashby Pdf

Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing rebirth, seeking one’s creator, and being at one with God. Arved Ashby offers the non-specialist a general introduction into Mahler’s seemingly unbounded energy to investigate the elements that make each work an experiential adventure—one that has redefined the symphonic genre in new ways. In addition to the standard nine symphonies, Ashby discusses Das Lied von der Erde, the three most commonly heard song sets (the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, and Rückert-Lieder), and the unfinished Tenth Symphony (in Cooke’s edition). Experiencing Mahler is a far-reaching and often provocative search for meaning in the music of one of the most beloved composers of all time.