Perspectives on Anton Bruckner / edited by Crawford Howie, Paul Hawkshaw, and Timothy Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howie, Crawford, 1942-

Hawkshaw, Paul, 1950-

Jackson, Timothy L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896--Criticism and interpretation.

Bruckner, Anton.

Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Theoretical Perspective and Compositional Practice

1 A composer learns his craft: lessons in form and orchestration, 1861-3 / Paul Hawkshaw 3

2 Bruckner's Oktaven: the problem of consecutives, doubling, and orchestral voice-leading / Timothy L. Jackson 30

Part 2 Symphonist: Analytical Considerations

3 The early version of the Second Symphony / William Carragan 69

4 Master and disciple united: the 1889 Finale of the Third Symphony / Thomas Roder 93

5 Continuity in the Fourth Symphony (first movement) / Edward Laufer 114

6 The expressive role of disjunction: a semiotic approach to form and meaning in the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies / Robert S. Hatten 145

7 'Harmonic daring' and symphonic design in the Sixth Symphony: an essay in historical musical analysis / Benjamin M. Korstvedt 185

8 The Adagio of the Sixth Symphony and the anticipatory tonic recapitulation in Bruckner, Brahms and Dvorak / Timothy L. Jackson 206

9 Bruckner's free application of strict Sechterian theory with stimulation from Wagnerian sources: an assessment of the first movement of the Seventh Symphony / Graham H. Phipps 228

10 Musical time in the Eighth Symphony / Joseph C. Kraus 259

11 The facts behind a 'legend': the Ninth Symphony and the Te Deum / John A. Phillips 270

Part 3 Man, Musician and Reception

12 On unity between Bruckner's personality and production / Constantin Floros 285

13 Bruckner-the travelling virtuoso / Crawford Howie 299

14 Students and friends as 'prophets' and 'promoters': the reception of Bruckner's works in the Wiener Akademische Wagner-Verein / Andrea Harrandt 317

15 Anton Bruckner and 'German music': Josef Schalk and the establishment of Bruckner as a national composer / Thomas Leibnitz 328

16 Siegmund von Hausegger: a Bruckner authority from the 1930s / Christa Brustle 341

17 Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on Bruckner / Peter Palmer 353

18 Richard Wetz (1875-1935): a Brucknerian composer / Erik Levi 363.

Notes:

Includex bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754601102

OCLC:

43631956