Inside Mahler's Second Symphony - Bernstein, Lawrence F

. .

Résumé :
This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler's struggle to create what he called the New Symphony...

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:

• 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