Perspectives on Anton Bruckner / edited by Crawford Howie, Paul Hawkshaw, and Timothy Jackson.

Other author Howie, Crawford, 1942- editor.
Other author Hawkshaw, Paul, 1950- editor.
Other author Jackson, Timothy L., editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, ©2001.
Descriptionxxvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Part one. Theoretical perspective and compositional practice. A composer learns from his craft: lessons in form and orchestration, 1861-3 / Paul Hawkshaw -- Bruckner's Oktaven: the problem of consecutives, doubling, and orchestral voice-leading / Timothy L. Jackson -- Part two. Symphonist: analytical considerations. The early version of the second symphony / William Carragan -- Master and disciple united: the 1889 finale of the third symphony / Thomas Roder -- Continuity in the fourth symphony (first movement) / Edward Laufer -- The expressive role of disjunction: a semiotic approach to form and meaning in the fourth and fifth symphonies / Robert S. Hatten -- "Harmonic daring" and symphonic design in the sixth symphony: an essay in historical musical analysis / Benjamin M. Korstvedt -- The adagio of the sixth symphony and the anticipatory tonic recapitulation in Bruckner, Brahms and Dvorak / Timothy L. Jackson -- Bruckner's free application of strict Sechterian theory with stimulation from Wagnerian sources: an assessment of the first movement of the seventh symphony / Graham H. Phipps -- Musical time in the eighth symphony / Joseph C. Kraus -- The facts behind a "legend": the ninth symphony and the Te Deum / John A. Phillips -- Part three. Man, musician and reception. On unity between Bruckner's personality and production / Constantin Floros -- Bruckner - the travelling virtuoso / Crawford Howie -- Students and friends as "prophets" and "promoters": the reception of Bruckner's works in the Wiener Akademische Wagner-Verein / Andrea Harrandt -- Anton Bruckner and "German music": Josef Schalk and the establishment of Bruckner as a national composer / Thomas Leibnitz -- Siegmund von Hausegger: a Bruckner authority from the 1930s / Christa Brustle -- Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on Bruckner / Peter Palmer -- Richard Wetz (1975-1935): a Brucknerian composer / Erik Levi.
Abstract A century after his death Anton Bruckner still remains one of the most complex and enigmatic creative personalities of the nineteenth century. A leading avant-garde figure of his generation, he was an accomplished performer and teacher in addition to being a great composer; few people in the history of western music can boast his level of achievement in all these areas combined. This book, a collection of essays written by an international group of scholars, offers diverse theoretical and musicological perspectives on Bruckner the composer-teacher-performer. Facets of his formidable theoretical training and his application of it as part of the compositional process are explored. A variety of analytical methodologies is used to examine the Second through to the Ninth Symphonies, the heart of the composer's mature repertoire. Finally, aspects of Bruckner's career as a teacher and performer, his complex personality, his influence and dissemination of his music are considered.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 00029309
ISBN0754601102 (alk. paper)

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