Nielsen - Symphony No. 5

This book focuses on the definitive work by Carl Nielsen - Denmark's greatest composer.

List of contents

1. Tradition and renewal; 2. The first movement: dark, resting forces; 3. The second movement: alert forces; 4. Composition, reception, editions, recordings; Appendices: A. Interview with Axel Kjerulf; B. Statement to Ludvig Dolleris; C. Analytical reductions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary

This book focuses on the definitive work by Carl Nielsen - Denmark's greatest composer. Fanning takes full account of extensive Danish commentaries and offers new insights into Symphony's 'progressive tonality' and relationship to traditional structural models.

Product details

• Authors: David Fanning
• Assisted by: Julian Rushton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2015
• EAN: 9780521440882
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44088-2
• No. of pages: 138
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 314 g
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous