Discovering Classical Music: Mahler
Discovering Classical Music: Mahler

Author: Ian Christians

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1473888174

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"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.This volume concentrates on the life, personality and music of Edward William Elgar.

Reading Mahler
Reading Mahler

Author: Carl Niekerk

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1571134670

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Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Discovering Mahler
Discovering Mahler

Author: Donald Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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Beginning with a survey of Mahler's music, this work presents an examination of the revelatory role of the performer. It also includes a section that consists of major lectures and celebratory essays.

Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Author: Jens Malte Fischer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 0300134444

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Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.

Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Mahler's Seventh Symphony

Author: Anna Stoll Knecht

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0190491116

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Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of Gustav Mahler's most controversial work, based on a confrontation between genetic and analytic approaches. Exposing new facets of Mahler's musical humor, this book freshly reconsiders the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.

Mahler's Voices
Mahler's Voices

Author: Julian Johnson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-04-17

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0199707081

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Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.

Why Mahler?
Why Mahler?

Author: Norman Lebrecht

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 140009657X

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Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.

The Mahler Symphonies
The Mahler Symphonies

Author: David Hurwitz

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781574670998

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"Hurwitz describes the emotional extravagance that lies at the root of Mahler's popularity, the consistency of his symphonic thinking, and his dazzling and revolutionary use of orchestral instruments to create an expressive musical language that is varied in content and immediate in impact."--BOOK JACKET.

Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Author: Donald Mitchell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780520041417

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Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music, revised and updated in 1980, includes a new introduction by the author, and supplementary addenda, which bring this classic work once again to the forefront of Mahler studies. Tracing Mahler's life from his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire, to his early works (many now lost) Gustav Mabler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude to the period during which the cycle of great symphonies was to evolve. The conflicts which came to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginnings in his childhood and youth. Without understanding the territorial, social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years. Book jacket.

Rethinking Mahler
Rethinking Mahler

Author: Jeremy Barham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0199316090

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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.