1. Mahler and the Musical Voice a. The Idea of Voice b. Songs and Symphonies c. Orchestral Voices 2. Calling Forth a Voice a. Calling Forth b. Horn Calls, Birdsong and Bell c. Calling Back 3. Constructing a Voice a. Artifice and Invention b. Des Knaben Wunderhorn c. The Middle S…
Johnson considers how Mahler's body of music foregrounds the idea of artifice, construction and musical convention while also presenting itself as act of authentic expression and disclosure. This study of brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide…
Passionate and intense in one moment, ironic or brash in the next, Mahler's music speaks with a diversity of voices that often undermine its own ideals of unity, narrative struggle and transcendent affirmation. The composer plays constantly with musical genres and styles, moving…
1. Mahler and the Musical Voice. a. The Idea of Voice. b. Songs and Symphonies. c. Orchestral Voices. 2. Calling Forth a Voice. a. Calling Forth. b. Horn Calls, Birdsong and Bell. c. Calling Back. 3. Constructing a Voice. a. Artifice and Invention. b. Des Knaben Wunderhorn. c. T…
Gustav Mahler
by Ryding, Erik S., Walter, Bruno, Krenek, Ernst
fromDover books on music, music history
Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered …
Gustav Mahler
by Ryding, Erik S., Walter, Bruno, Krenek, Ernst
fromDover books on music, music history
Gustav Mahler
by Ryding, Erik S., Walter, Bruno, Krenek, Ernst
fromDover books on music, music history
Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered …
Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered …
Gustav Mahler
by Walter, Bruno, Krenek, Ernst, Ryding, Erik S.
fromDover books on music, music history
Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered …
"The legendary life of the muse of geniuses, Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel"--
"The legendary life of the muse of geniuses, Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel"--
"The legendary life of the muse of geniuses, Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel"--
"The legendary life of the muse of geniuses, Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel"--
"The legendary life of the muse of geniuses, Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel"-- Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more-polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964). Mistress to a long…