John Williamson (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner

Herausgeber: Williamson, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen essays by leading experts provide an introduction to Bruckner's life and works in all genres and introduce the lay reader to issues that have concerned scholars over the past twenty years.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Music
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780521008785
• ISBN-10: 0521008786
• Artikelnr.: 21771722

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck John Williamson
2. Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century Andrea Harrandt
3. Bruckner in Vienna Andrea Harrandt
Part II. Choral Music: 4. Bruckner's large sacred compositions Paul Hawkshaw
5. Bruckner and the motet A. Crawford Howie
6. Bruckner and secular vocal music A. Crawford Howie
Part III. The Symphonist: 7. The Brucknerian symphony: an overview John Williamson
8. Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation: the dialectic of darkness and light Derek B. Scott
9. Programme symphony and absolute music John Williamson
10. Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited Benjamin M. Korstvedt
11. Bruckner and the symphony orchestra Julian Horton
12. Between formlessness and formality: aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form Benjamin M. Korstvedt
13. Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements Margaret Notley
14. Bruckner and Harmony Kevin Swinden
Part IV. Reception: 15. Conductors and Bruckner John Williamson
16. The musical image of Bruckner Christa Brüstle.