Inside Mahler's Second Symphony

Lawrence F. Bernstein is the Karen and Gary Rose Emeritus Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received several awards for distinguished teaching. He also taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and Rutgers University, and at the University of Chicago. His specialty is Renaissance music, in which field he concentrated on the French chanson and on the music of Jean d'Ockeghem. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and as Founding Editor of AMS Studies in Music. Bernstein was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2009, he was elected an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.

List of Figures and Tables
List of Music Examples
List of Audio Examples
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Recording
How to Use this Book

Part One: Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for the Second Symphony

Part Two: The Five Movements
Chapter 2 First Movement: The Opening and a Two-part Exposition
Chapter 3 First Movement: Development and Recapitulation
Chapter 4 The Second Movement
Chapter 5 A Song Serves as a Study for the Third Movement
Chapter 6 The Third Movement: Scherzo and Trio
Chapter 7 The Fourth Movement: "Urlicht"
Chapter 8 How to Complete the Symphony
Chapter 9 The Last Movement, Part 1: References to Judgment and the Airing of Themes
Chapter 10 The Last Movement, Part 2: Judgment in Action, Musical Development, and Some Continuing Enigmas
Chapter 11 The Last Movement, Part 3: Collapse, Climactic Resolution, a Stunning Reversal, and Celebration

Appendices
Appendix 1 The Formal Template for the First Movement: Sonata Form
Appendix 2 Second-Movement Forms
Appendix 3 The Origins, Character, and Form of the Scherzo
Appendix 4 Complete Performances of Each Movement
Glossary
Bibliography
Index