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After Mahler : Britten, Weill, Henze, and romantic redemption / Stephen Downes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downes, Stephen C., 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
- Weill, Kurt.
- Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-2012--Criticism and interpretation.
- Henze, Hans Werner.
- Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mahler, Gustav.
- Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911--Influence.
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist - Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s Germany and Italy. Downes argues that Mahler's music struck a profound chord with them because of the powerful manner in which it raises and intensifies dystopian and utopian complexes and probes the question of fulfilment or redemption, an ambition manifest in ambiguous tonal, temporal and formal processes. Comparisons of the ways in which this topic is evoked facilitate new interpretative insights into the music of these four major composers.
- Contents:
- Mahler's moment
- Naïve and sentimental : Britten and Mahler
- Real and surreal : shocks, dreams and temporality in the music of Weill and Mahler
- Tyranny and freedom : Henze and Mahler.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-46057-3
- 1-139-89048-4
- 1-107-45897-8
- 1-107-47185-0
- 1-139-05180-6
- 1-107-46820-5
- 1-107-46475-7
- 1-107-47288-1
- OCLC:
- 862614145
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