Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 / Benjamin M. Korstvedt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korstvedt, Benjamin M., author.

Series:

Cambridge music handbooks.

Cambridge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896. Symphonies--no. 8--C minor.

Bruckner, Anton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 133 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music, at once extensive and distilled, directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and after Wagner. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and offers an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.

Contents:

Placing the eighth symphony

The genesis and evolution of the Eighth Symphony

The musical design and symphonic agenda of the Eighth

The Adagio and the sublime

The 1887 version of the 1890 version

The 1892 edition, authorship, and performance practice.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.

ISBN:

9780511089107

0511089104

9781107115743

1107115744

9781280432224

1280432225

9780511173363

0511173369

9780511152429

0511152426

9780511327513

051132751X

9780511605918

0511605919

9780511051111

0511051115

OCLC:

437063135

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07658 hdl