Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
- Author: Thomas Peattie, Boston University
- Date Published: April 2015
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In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a richly interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler's symphonic idiom and its radical attitude toward the presentation and ordering of musical events. The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre.
Read more- Explores Mahler's reinvention of the symphony in relation to ideas of theatricality, mobility, and landscape
- Offers a new and accessible account of Mahler's work at the turn of the twentieth century
- Situates Mahler's symphonic writing in its broader historical context, drawing attention to its place in European cultural history
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- Date Published: April 2015
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781316308561
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction: hearing Mahler
1. The expansion of symphonic space
2. Distant music
3. Alpine journeys
4. Symphonic panoramas
5. The wanderer.
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