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Mahler's Seventh Symphony
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 humor, this book freshly reconsiders the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Rethinking Mahler
As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and amateur orchestras and choirs across the world, Gustav Mahler continues to generate significant interest, and the global appetite for his music, and for discussions of it, remains large. Editor Jeremy Barham brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore Mahler's relationship with music, media, and ideas past and present, addressing issues in structural analysis, performance, genres of stage, screen and literature, cultural movements, aesthetics, history/historiography and temporal experience. Rethinking Mahler counterbalances prevailing scholarly assumptions and preference...
The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema
This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of music from fresh perspectives. Its approach is not only multidisciplinary, but also interdisciplinary in its close examination of how music and other cinematic devices interact in the creation of comedy. The volume addresses gender representation, national identities, stylistic strategies, and employs inputs from cultural studies, musicology, music theory, psychology, cognitivism, semiotics, formal and stylistic film analysis, and psychoanalysis. It is organised in four sections: general introductions, theoretical investigations, music and comedy within national cinemas, and exemplary case studies of films or authors.
Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
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.
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) ist zusammen mit Olivier Messiaen und Pierre Boulez einer der drei großen französischen Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Geburtsjahr fällt zwischen die der beiden Landsleute: Messiaen war 8 Jahre älter, Boulez 9 Jahre jünger als Dutilleux. Beide schätzte er, keinem schloss er sich an. Weder Messiaens religiös bestimmte Thematik und auf eigenen Modi basierende Tonsprache noch Boulez’ radikaler Serialismus entsprachen seinem ästhetischen Empfinden. Eine deutschsprachige Gesamtdarstellung zum Œuvre dieses bedeutenden Komponisten fehlte bisher. Diese Lücke möchte das vorliegende Buch schließen. Jedes der Werke, von denen Dutilleux sich nicht später distanzierte, indem er sie als unreife Jugendwerke oder Gelegenheitsarbeiten einstufte, wird hier mit seinem Entstehungskontext eingeführt, im Blick auf eventuelle außermusikalische Einflüsse, besonders aus Literatur und bildender Kunst, beleuchtet und hinsichtlich Struktur, Thematik und Tonsprache analysiert. Die Anordnung der Kapitel folgt der Chronologie der Fertigstellung. Sie überspannt einen Zeitraum von 66 Jahren.
Erich Schmid (1907 - 2000)
Erich Schmid komponierte in jungen Jahren eine Reihe herausragender Werke in einem avancierten Stil. Er war Schüler von Arnold Schönberg und mit Anton Webern persönlich bekannt. Schmids freier Umgang mit der Technik der Zwölftonkomposition und seine konzentrierte Expressivität führten zu dichten und faszinierenden musikalischen Gebilden, die zu seinen Lebzeiten kaum aufgeführt wurden. Dieser Band umfasst die Beiträge des Zürcher Symposiums und gibt Einblicke in den Werdegang Schmids sowie in die Umstände seiner Entscheidung für das Berufsleben eines Dirigenten. Die Beiträge bieten analytische Aufarbeitungen ausgewählter Stücke für Orchester, kammermusikalische Besetzung und Klavier. Zwei Beiträge befassen sich mit musikalischen Phänomenen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Music Sketches
This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers' sketches.
Mahler's Nietzsche
Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous influence over the twentieth century. All the more fascinating, then, is Mahler's intellectual engagement with the writings of Nietzsche. Given the limited and frequently cryptic nature of the composer's own comments on Nietzsche, Mahler's specific understanding of the elusive thinker is achieved through the examination of Nietzsche's reception amongst the people who introduced composer to philosopher: members of the Pernerstorfer Circle at the University of Vienna. Mahler's Nietzsche draws on a variety of primar...
Experiencing Mahler
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.
The Viennese Waltz
Satiricized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Schoenberg, Mahler, and Webern’s pens the waltz became the pivot between the conscious and unconscious, forcing a paralytic “second state” analogous with the stagnation of the Habsburg Empire. The Viennese Waltz shows how, between 1864 – 1928, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificeto the link between man and nature and between Viennese and “Other.” Hood wields the Freudian concepts of the uncanny and the doppelgänger to explain this revolution from the simple signification of a dance to the psychological anxiety of a subject’s place in society.
