Julian Johnson

Mahler's Voices (eBook, ePUB)

Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199888207
• Artikelnr.: 42727645

Autorenporträt

Julian Johnson is Professor of Music, Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of Oxford. From 2001-2007. He was Reader in Music and a Fellow of St. Anne's College at the University of Oxford, and recipient of the Dent Medal (2005) awarded by the Royal Musical Association for "outstanding contributions to musicology." Author of Webern and the Transformation of Nature (Cambridge, 1999) and Who Needs Classical Music? (OUP, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mahler and the Musical Voice
a: The Idea of Voice
b: Songs and Symphonies
c: Orchestral Voices
2. Calling Forth a Voice
a: Calling Forth
b: Horn Calls, Birdsong and Bell
c: Calling Back
3. Constructing a Voice
a: Artifice and Invention
b: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
c: The Middle Symphonies
4. Plural Voices
a: Carnival Humor
b: Irony and Tone
c: Borrowed Voices
5. Genre and Voice
a: Song
b: Opera
c: Symphony
6. Ways of Telling
a: Literary Voices
b: Idyll, Dream and Fairytale
c: Narrative Strategies
7. Vienna, Modernism and Modernity
a: Critical voices
b: Modernist voices
c: Political voices
8. Performing Authenticity
a: Reception and Performance
b: Authenticity and Self-Critique
c: "As If"