Mahler : Symphony no. 3 / Peter Franklin.

Author/creator Franklin, Peter
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Descriptionxiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphonies, no. 3, D minor.

SeriesCambridge music handbooks
Cambridge music handbooks. ^A275900
Contents Part I. The symphony in its world -- Background: progress, tradition and ideas. Music and nineteenth-century culture ; McGrath's approach ; Radical conservatism ; Inspiration and nature (Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche) ; The programme and popularization -- Reception: the early performances. Early performances of movements from the Third Symphony ; The first performances of the complete symphony ; The Third in Vienna -- Part II. The world in the symphony -- Genesis and design. Meaning and the reinterpretation of form ; The evolving conception -- The music. Movement 2 ; Movement 3 ; Movement 4, movement 5, movement 6 ; Movement 1 -- Appendix I. The 1896 manuscript and the first published score ; Appendix II. Two early sketches for the Third Symphony.
Abstract Mahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler's grandiose piece of philosophical program music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects. In this original and wide-ranging account, the author takes the Third Symphony as a representative modern European symphony of its period and evaluates the work as both the culmination of Mahler's early symphonic style and a work whose contradictory effects mirror the complexity of contemporary social and musical manners. The music is described in detail, movement by movement, with chapters on the genesis, early performance, and subsequent reception of the work.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
LCCN 90025620
ISBN052137071X (hardback)
ISBN0521379474 (paperback)

Availability

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Music Music Stacks ML410.M23 F7 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold