Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies
- Author: Johnson, Julian
Johnson's rich and provocative study ... serves not only as a welcome antidote but also as an open invitation to a renewed engagement with this all-too-familiar music in terms of what Johnson... — More…
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Contents
- 1. Mahler and the Musical Voice
- a The Idea of Voice
- b Songs and Symphonies
- c Orchestral Voices
- 2. Calling Forth a Voice
- a Calling Forth
- b Horn Calls, Birdsong and Bell
- c Calling Back
- 3. Constructing a Voice
- a Artifice and Invention
- b Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- c The Middle Symphonies
- 4. Plural Voices
- a Carnival Humor
- b Irony and Tone
- c Borrowed Voices
- 5. Genre and Voice
- a Song
- b Opera
- c Symphony
- 6. Ways of Telling
- a Literary Voices
- b Idyll, Dream and Fairytale
- c Narrative Strategies
- 7. Vienna, Modernism and Modernity
- a Critical voices
- b Modernist voices
- c Political voices
- 8. Performing Authenticity
- a Reception and Performance
- b Authenticity and Self-Critique
- c As If