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This book, a collection of essays written by an international group of scholars, offers diverse theoretical and musicological perspectives on Bruckner the composer-teacher-performer. Facets of his formidable theoretical training and his application of it as part of the compositional process are explored. A variety of analytical methodologies is used to examine the Second through to the Ninth Symphonies, the heart of the composer's mature repertoire. Finally, aspects of Bruckner's career as a teacher and performer, his complex personality, his influence and dissemination of his music are considered.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Theoretical Perspective and Compositional Practice: A composer learns his craft: lessons in form and orchestration, 1861-63, Paul Hawkshaw; Bruckner’s Oktaven: the problem of consecutives, doubling and orchestral voice-leading, Timothy L. Jackson; Symphonist: Analytical Considerations: The early version of the Second Symphony, William Carragan; Master and disciple united: the 1889 finale of Bruckner’s Third Symphony, Thomas Röder; Continuity in the Fourth Symphony (first movement), Edward Laufer; The expressive role of disjunction: a semiotic approach to form and meaning in the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, Robert S. Hatten; ’Harmonic daring’ and symphonic design in the Sixth Symphony: an essay in historical musical analysis, Benjamin Marcus Korstvedt; The Adagio of the Sixth Symphony and the anticipatory tonic recapitulation in Bruckner, Brahms and Dvorák, Timothy L. Jackson; Bruckner’s free application of strict Sechterian theory with stimulation from Wagnerian sources: an assessment of the first movement of the Seventh Symphony, Graham H. Phipps; Musical time in the Eighth Symphony, Joseph C. Kraus; The facts behind a ’legend’: the Ninth Symphony and the Te Deum, John A. Phillips; Man, Musician and Reception: On unity between Bruckner’s personality and production, Constantin Floros; Bruckner - the travelling virtuoso, Crawford Howie; Students and friends as ’prophets’ and ’promoters’: the reception of Bruckner’s works in the Wiener Akademische Wagner-Verein, Andrea Harrandt; Anton Bruckner and ’German music’: Josef Schalk and the establishment of Bruckner as a national composer, Thomas Leibnitz; Siegmund von Hausegger: a Bruckner authority from the 1930s, Christa Brüstle; Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on Bruckner, Peter Palmer; Richard Wetz (1875-1935): a Brucknerian composer, Erik Levi; Index.
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Crawford Howie
Summary
This collection of essays offers diverse theoretical and musicological perspectives on Bruckner the composer, teacher and performer. It explores his theoretical training and his application of it as part of the compositional process.
