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Gustav Mahler
The Symphonies
Häftad, 1997
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Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.
Gustav Mahler
The Symphonies
E-bok, 2003
430 kr
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Mahler''s 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler''s musical techniques.
Passion: Music – An Intellectual Autobiography
Tanslated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Häftad, 2018
1054 kr
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The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "establishment" and "outsiders" in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and musicologists and seeks to illuminate the nature of the phenomenon of music from diverse vantage points, centering on …
Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot
Portrait of A Personality. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2012
798 kr
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With the terms «visionary» and «despot», the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahler’s inner biography: his unshakable belief in the «sacredness of musical art» and …
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
Translated by Neil K. Moran
Inbunden, 2014
1105 kr
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The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial …
Beethoven’s «Eroica»
Thematic Studies. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2012
549 kr
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With this study the author «opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research» (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century. It makes clear what exactly Beethoven and his contemporaries meant by the term «heroic». It …
Alban Berg
Music as Autobiography. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2014
1105 kr
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The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography of its creator. …
Gyoergy Ligeti
Beyond Avant-garde and Postmodernism. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2014
755 kr
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This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set forth and illuminated, and his principal …
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Inbunden, 2016
964 kr
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Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents …
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
Studies in Musical Semantics
Inbunden, 2015
934 kr
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In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to …
Anton Bruckner
The Man and the Work. 2. revised edition
Inbunden, 2014
639 kr
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While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler – in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme instance of the …
Gustav Mahler’s Mental World
A Systematic Representation. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2016
972 kr
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With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies really be categorized as «absolute music»? – Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary: programmatic titles and catchwords or …
Listening and Understanding
The Language of Music and How to Interpret It. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2017
827 kr
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To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role – at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and expressions. Following general reflections about …
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 2018
709 kr
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book demonstrates the close interrelationship between Tchaikovsky’s life and his work. The author portrays the versatility of the musician who died at the mere …
Peter Tschaikowsky
E-bok, 2019
68 kr
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Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) ist bis heute einer der meistgespielten russischen Komponisten. Constantin Floros beschreibt auf der Grundlage neuester Forschungen und Quellenpublikationen die enge Verquickung von Biographie und Werk Tschaikowskys. Und er zeigt die ganze Vielseitigkeit des Musikers, …
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Undeserved Gift to Humanity
Inbunden, 2019
683 kr
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Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes both the comic and the tragic. The present study …
Komposition ALS Kommunikation
Zur Musik Des 20. Jahrhunderts
Av Constantin Floros, Friedrich Geiger m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
856 kr
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Dieser Band versammelt vierundzwanzig Beiträge von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Generationen zu einer Rückschau auf die Musikgeschichte des eben zu Ende gegangenen Jahrhunderts. Er ist Peter Petersen, dem langjährigen Redakteur und Mitherausgeber des Hamburger Jahrbuchs, zum sechzigsten …
Origins of Western Notation
Revised and Translated by Neil Moran. With a Report on «The Reception of the «Universale Neumenkunde, 1970-2010»
Inbunden, 2011
794 kr
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Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Universale Neumenkunde published in German in 1970, there …
Humanism, Love and Music
Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Inbunden, 2011
630 kr
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«Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely an autonomous artifact but also document humain.» With this thesis – and with a view to the question as to the meaning …
New Ears for New Music
Translated by Kenneth Chalmers
Inbunden, 2014
521 kr
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20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned …
