Nielsen, Symphony no. 5 / David Fanning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanning, David (David J.), author.

Series:

Cambridge music handbooks.

Cambridge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nielsen, Carl, 1865-1931. Symphonies--no. 5, op. 50.

Nielsen, Carl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 127 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the death of Mahler in 1911 the great Austro-German symphonic line was carried on mainly in England, America, Scandinavia and Russia. The Fifth Symphony of Carl Nielsen, Denmark's greatest composer, was composed in 1921-2. David Fanning discusses its place within the symphonic tradition since Beethoven, revealing the personal background to the work and taking full account of the extensive Danish commentaries, including the composer's own, which are given in English for the first time. In an absorbing analysis of the music he lays bare the origins of its images of inertia, anxiety and collapse in Nielsen's tone poems and incidental music for the theatre. Insights are offered into the symphony's 'progressive tonality' and its relationship to traditional structural models.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Tradition and renewal

The death of the symphony?

The survival of a symphonist

Nielsen as modernist

Symphonic polarities

2 The first movement: dark, resting forces

3 The second movement: alert forces

4 Composition, reception, editions, recordings

Composition

Reception

Editions

Recordings

Appendices

A Interview with Axel Kjerulf

B Statement to Ludvig Dolleris

C Analytical reductions

Notes

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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

Discography: p. 87-90.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-121) and index.

ISBN:

9781139085724

1139085727

9780511612084

0511612087

9780511007712

051100771X

OCLC:

935276453

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07651 hdl