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Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion: Listener's Companion

Autor Arved Ashby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2024
Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing rebirth, seeking one's creator, and being at one with God. Arved Ashby offers the non-specialist a general introduction into Mahler's seemingly unbounded energy to investigate the elements that make each work an experiential adventure-one that has redefined the symphonic genre in new ways.

In addition to the standard nine symphonies, Ashby discusses Das Lied von der Erde, the three most commonly heard song sets (the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, and Rückert-Lieder), and the unfinished Tenth Symphony (in Cooke's edition).

Experiencing Mahler is a far-reaching and often provocative search for meaning in the music of one of the most beloved composers of all time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538198865
ISBN-10: 153819886X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Listener's Companion

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction

Timeline

Chapter 1 Symphony No. 1: The Journey Begins

Chapter 2 Symphony No. 2: Death and Resurrection

Chapter 3 Three Song Sets: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Rückert Lieder, Kindertotenlieder

Chapter 4 Symphony No. 3: Limning the Cosmos

Chapter 5 Symphony No. 4: Mahler's Symphony of the Child

Chapter 6 Symphony No. 5: Journeys for a New Century

Chapter 7 Symphony No. 6: The Rigid Embrace of the Narrow House-The Blackness of the Absolute Night

Chapter 8 Symphony No. 7: A Mahler Serenade

Chapter 9 Symphony No. 8: His Gift to the Nation

Chapter 10 Das Lied von der Erde: Songs of Seclusion and Wandering

Chapter 11 Symphony No. 9: The Most Painful Lust for Life

Chapter 12 Symphony No. 10: Music from the Hereafter?

Selected Listening

Selected Reading

Recenzii

Highly Recommended: [Experiencing Mahler] will be appreciated by music lovers at all levels of expertise. The book is valuable as a journey through Mahler's oeuvre with an intelligent and perceptive companion, and as a good excuse to revisit the work of a most important but often misunderstood modern classical composer.
Ashby takes the reader on an informed tour of each work . . . Describing music with words is difficult, but Ashby is an engaging writer . . . What sets his book apart from similar efforts are CD timestamps . . . that allow readers to "drop the needle" on exactly what is being discussed at a given moment.
Where does one start? How could even a seasoned Mahlerian find fresh perspectives on his work? If you're completely new to Mahler's music, where do you go for an informed but approachable introduction? The answer to all three questions is Arved Ashby's Experiencing Mahler. Taking us one by one through the symphonies and major song cycles, Ashby combines history, analysis, and critical observation into a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking read. For a clear and informative introduction to Mahler, look no further.
A pleasure. Ashby takes us lovingly through each piece, page-by-page or even phrase-by-phrase. His ability to get into the ideas behind Mahler's scores, asking basic questions on meaning and style is refreshing and perceptive. Experiencing Mahler will make a great introduction to this enthralling composer, or a spur for the already initiated.
During the pandemic I've found myself teaching my Mahler course from home. Experiencing Mahler has been my closest companion- I consulted it nearly every day for Ashby's brilliant insights into the details of the music. This is a superb addition to the resources for studying Mahler.
A book like this succeeds if it leads the reader back to the music. I put the thing down every few pages because I just had to listen.
Immensely enjoyable, wonderful material that is both compelling and persuasive. The way Ashby frames and reframes our understanding of these pieces has provided me with new insights and new ways of approaching this music.
This is a book to read slowly and treasure: I found myself pouring over each paragraph with delight, wanting to digest every extraordinary thought. Ashby offers a world of poetry and imagination as he shares keen insights- involving philosophy, psychology, history, and culture- into this most complex of composers. Experiencing Mahler is a startlingly original book, and it should be required reading for every conductor. But then any Mahler lover will be enchanted by the dreamscapes that Ashby traces for these symphonic worlds.