Inside Mahler’s Second Symphony: A Listener’s Guide 1st Edition Lawrence F. Bernstein

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197575641
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197575642
• Author(s): Lawrence F. Bernstein

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; his innovative approaches to traditional musical form; how he addressed the daunting challenges of writing music on a monumental scale; and how he dealt with the ineluctable force of Beethoven’s symphonic precedent, especially that of the Ninth Symphony.

The central focus of Inside Mahler’s Second Symphony is on the music itself: how it works, how it works its magic on the listener, how it translates the earnest existential concerns that motivate the symphony into powerful and highly expressive music. Beyond this, the book ushers the Listener’s Guide into the digital age with 185 dedicated audio examples. They are brief, accessible, and arranged to flow from one to another to simulate how the symphony might be presented in a classroom discussion. Each movement is also presented uninterrupted, accompanied by light annotations to remind the reader of what they learned about the movement. Each musical event in the uninterrupted presentation is keyed to its location in the orchestral score to accommodate readers who may wish to refer to one.

Table contents:

Part I: Preliminaries
1. Setting the Stage for the Second Symphony
Part II: The Five Movements
2. The First Movement: Its Opening and a Two-Part Exposition
3. The First Movement: Development and Recapitulation
4. The Second Movement
5. A Song Serves as a Study for the Third Movement
6. The Third Movement: Scherzo and Trio
7. The Fourth Movement: “Urlicht”
8. How to Complete the Symphony
9. The Last Movement, Part 1: References to Judgment and the Airing of Themes
10. The Last Movement, Part 2: Judgment in Action, Musical Development, and Some Continuing Enigmas
11. The Last Movement, Part 3: Collapse, Climactic Resolution, a Stunning Reversal, and Celebration
Index of References to Musical Works by Gustav Mahler

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