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Coming soon. Mahler's Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty

  • Author: Berger, Karol

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$66.75

Due for release on 12th Feb 2025

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Prologue: The Lesson of Mahler
  • 1. Cycles: The Norm and Its Extensions
  • 2. Allegro: The March of the World The First: Art before Art
  • The Second: Building and Breaking
  • The Third: The Rite of Summer
  • The Fourth: Neoclassicism and Exhaustion
  • The Fifth: The Tentative Triumph
  • The Sixth: The Programmatic Temptation
  • The Seventh: The Intransitive Anticipation
  • The Ninth: The Amalgamation of Forms
  • The Tenth: Music and Autobiography
  •   3. Andante: The Respite The Funeral March The First: Jewishness in Music The Dance-Based Andante The Second: Remembrance of Music’s Past
  • The Third: The Dance of the jeunes filles en fleurs The Serenade The Sixth: Night Music I
  • The Seventh: Night Music II and III
  •   4. Scherzo: The Run of the World The First: Danse à la campagne and Danse à la ville
  • The Second: An Outsider Looks In
  • The Third: Animals Listen
  • The Fourth: Dancing till We Drop
  • The Fifth: La Valse
  • The Sixth: The Invention of Cubism
  • The Seventh: Night Music IV
  • The Ninth: The Development of Cubism
  • The Rondo-Burleske of the Ninth: The Wild Chase
  • Postscript: The Tenth
  •   5. Finale: In Search of Consolation The Allegro-Finale The First: The Breakthrough
  • The Sixth: The Unmotivated Catastrophe The Rondo-Finale The Fifth: The Taking Back of the Ninth
  • The Seventh: On the Nuremberg Meadow The Adagio-Finale The Third: Love Descending
  • The Ninth: On the Heights The Vocal Finale The Second: The Taking Up of the Ninth
  • The Fourth: Finding the Solution
  •   6. The Vocal Cycles The Eighth Symphony I. Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus
  • II. Schlußszene aus “Faust” Das Lied von der Erde I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
  • II. Der Einsame im Herbst
  • III. Von der Jugend
  • IV. Von der Schönheit
  • V. Der Trunkene im Frühling
  • VI. Der Abschied
  •   7. Symphonies for the Age of Uncertainty The Sense of an Ending
  • How Poor a Yea-Sayer Was Mahler?
  • The Worldview Music
  •   Epilogue: The Lesson of Proust
  • Acknowledgments
  • Symphonic Works
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index