Rethinking Mahler

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-931609-0 (ISBN)

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In symphony and song, meaning and legacy, Mahler continues to present contradictory challenges. Rethinking Mahler locates the composer's music in a rich, multi-layered historical network in order to address these challenges, offering a fresh assessment of the debt he owed to his own musical and cultural past, and exploring new avenues in his posthumous reception and understanding.

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 preferences that configure Mahler as proto-modernist, with hitherto neglected consideration of his debt to, and his re-imagining of, the legacies of his own historical past. Over the course of 17 chapters drawing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the book pursues ideas of nostalgia, historicism and 'pastness' in relation to an emergent modernity and subsequent musical-cultural developments, yielding a wide-ranging exploration and re-evaluation of Mahler's works, their historical reception and understanding, and their resounding impact within diverse cultural contexts. Rethinking Mahler will be an essential resource for scholars and students of Mahler and late Romantic era music more generally, and will also find an audience among the many devotees of Mahler's music.

Jeremy Barham is Reader in Music at the University of Surrey. His academic interests lie in the areas of Mahler, 19th- and 20th-century Austro-German music and culture, screen music, and jazz. He has undertaken periods of archival research in Vienna, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, and Wiesbaden, and convened three international conferences, on Mahler (2011), early film music (2014) and the music and legacy of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (2016).

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Music Examples

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mahler's Times
Jeremy Barham

PART I Repertoires and Structures of the Past

1. Fantasy, Denial and Virtual Reality in Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Benjamin K. Davies

2. Mining the Past for New Expressions: Song Form as Narrative Device In
Mahler's Ballads from Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Molly M. Breckling

3. The Earliness of Mahler's Late Romanticism: The poetics of the 'Deceptive
Perfect Cadence' in the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde
Mark Summerfield

4. 'Pedester ist der Musikstoff, sublim der Vortrag.' Mahler's Scherzos as
Impulses for the Evolution of Musical Language
Mathieu Schneider

5. Forming Form through Force: Bruckner, Mahler, and the Structural Function of
Highpoints
Alessandro Cecchi

6. Die Meistersinger in Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Anna Stoll-Knecht

7. Idyllic Masks of Death: References to Orphée aux Enfers in 'Das himmlische
Leben'
Lóránt Péteri

PART II Stage, Screen and Popular Cultures

8. Mahler and the Myth of the Total Symphony
James Buhler

9. On the British Reception of Ken Russell's Mahler
Eftychia Papanikolaou,

10. Popular Music and the Colloquial Tone in the Posthorn Solos of Mahler's Third
Symphony
Timothy Freeze

11. Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Max Reinhardt's Concept of
Massenregie
Peter Revers

PART III Varieties of Historical and Aesthetic Experience

12. The Particularity of the Moment
Julian Johnson

13. Gustav Mahler and the Aesthetics of De-Identification
Federico Celestini,

14. Decadent Transitions: Mahler, Modernism, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle
Zoltan Roman

15. Justine Mahler's Faust Notebook: an Introduction
Stephen E. Hefling

16. Abridging Mahler's Symphonies: a Historical Perspective
Matthew Mugmon

17. Mahler and the Game of History
Jeremy Barham

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	113 line, 47 halftone
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-19-931609-0 / 0199316090
ISBN-13	978-0-19-931609-0 / 9780199316090
Zustand	Neuware