Bruckner's symphonies : analysis, reception, and cultural politics / Julian Horton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Symphonies--Analysis, appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few works in the nineteenth-century repertoire have aroused such extremes of hostility and admiration, or have generated so many scholarly problems, as Anton Bruckner's symphonies. In this 2004 book, Julian Horton seeks fresh ways of understanding the symphonies and the problems they have accrued by treating them as the focus for a variety of inter-disciplinary debates and methodological controversies. He isolates problematic areas in the works' analysis and reception, and approaches them from a range of analytical, historical, philosophical, literary, critical and psychoanalytical viewpoints. The symphonies are thus explored in the context of a number of crucial and sometimes provocative themes, including the political circumstances of the works' production, Bruckner and post-war musical analysis, issues of musical influence, the problem of editions, Bruckner and psychobiography, and the composer's controversial relationship to the Nazis.

Contents:

The critical problem

Bruckner and late nineteenth-century Vienna : analysis and historical context

Right-wing cultural politics and the Nazi appropriation of Bruckner

Bruckner and musical analysis

Bruckner and the construction of musical influence

Analysis and the problem of the editions

Psychobiography and analysis

Bruckner and his contexts.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-276) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15985-7

1-280-74995-4

0-511-26520-4

0-511-26592-1

0-511-26365-1

0-511-31757-3

0-511-48192-6

0-511-26446-1

OCLC:

476030573