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Mahler's symphonic sonatas / Seth Monahan.

Author/creator Monahan, Seth
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Descriptionx, 278 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Music
Subject(s)
Series Oxford studies in music theory
Oxford studies in music theory. ^A696826
Contents Part I. Interpreting Mahler's sonata forms. Sonata form in Mahler's narrative imagination ; Adorno's "Novel-Symphony": the dialectic of freedom and determinism ; Dimensions of Mahlerian narrativity -- Part II. Mahler's "Classical" sonatas. "A demonic Haydn": Mahler's confrontation with tradition in the first movement of the sixth ; A play within a play: games of closure and contingency in the first movement of the Fourth -- Part III. Mahler's "Epic" sonatas. The objectification of chaos: epic form and narrative multiplicity in part one of the Third ; Tragedy refuses a nominalist form: "Inescapable" coherence and the failure of the Novel-Symphony in the finale of the Sixth.
General noteIncludes companion website with annotated short scores and larger diagrams and figures.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index (pages 273-278).
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014003319
ISBN9780199303465 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0199303460 (hardback : alk. paper)

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