Jeremy Barham (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Mahler

Herausgeber: Barham, Jeremy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9780521832731
• ISBN-10: 052183273X
• Artikelnr.: 22784009

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Barham is Lecturer in Music in the Department of Music Sound Recording, University of Surrey.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology: Introduction: Marginalia on Mahler today Jeremy Barham; Part I.
Cultural Contexts: 1. Socio-political landscapes: reception and biography
Peter Franklin; 2. The literary and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler
Morten Solvik; 3. Music and aesthetics Vera Micznik; Part II. Mahler the
Creative Musician: 4. Juvenilia and early works: from the first song
fragments to Das klagende Lied Jeremy Barham; 5. Song and symphony (I).
Lieder und Gesänge Vol.1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and the First
Symphony: compositional patterns for the future Zoltan Roman; 6. Song and
song-symphony (I). Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Second, Third and Fourth
Symphonies: music of heaven and earth Peter Revers; 7. Song and symphony
(II). From Wunderhorn to Rückert and the middle-period symphonies: vocal
and instrumental works for a new century Stephen E. Hefling; 8. The
'greatest' and the 'most personal': the Eighth Symphony and Das Lied von
der Erde Christian Wildhagen; 9. The last works Jörg Rothkamm; Part III.
Mahler the Re-creative Musician: 10. Mahler as conductor in the opera house
and concert hall Herta Blaukopf; 11. Arrangements and Retuschen - Mahler
and Werktreue David Pickett; Part IV. Reception and Performance: 12. Issues
in Mahler reception: historicism and misreadings after 1960 Christoph
Metzger; 13. The history of the International Gustav Mahler Society in
Vienna and the complete critical edition Reinhold Kubik; 14. Musical
languages of love and death: Mahler's compositional legacy Stephen Downes;
15. Mahler conducted and recorded: from the concert hall to DVD Lewis M.
Smoley; 16. New research paths in criticism, analysis and interpretation
John Williamson; Appendix.