Perspectives on Anton Bruckner -

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Résumé :
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.

Sommaire:
Contents: Introduction; Theoretical Perspective and Compositional Practice: A composer learns his craft: lessons in form and orchestration, 1861-63, Paul Hawkshaw; Bruckner?s Oktaven: the problem of consecutives, doubling and orchestral voice-leading, Timothy L. Jackson; Symphonist: Analytical Considerations: The early version of the Second Symphony, William Carragan; Master and disciple united: the 1889 finale of Bruckner?s Third Symphony, Thomas R??der; 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 Marcus Korstvedt; The Adagio of the Sixth Symphony and the anticipatory tonic recapitulation in Bruckner, Brahms and Dvor??k, 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; 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 Br??stle; Ludwig Wittgenstein?s remarks on Bruckner, Peter Palmer; Richard Wetz (1875-1935): a Brucknerian composer, Erik Levi; Index.