Cambridge Companion to Bruckner

Name: Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
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ISBN: 9780521804042

ISBN-10: 0521804043

ISBN-13: 9780521804042

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Williamson, Jonathan Cross

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Description:

Sixteen essays by leading experts provide an introduction to Bruckner's life and works in all genres.

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/15/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Chronology


List of abbreviations



Background



Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck




Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century




Bruckner in Vienna




Choral music



Bruckner's large sacred compositions




Bruckner and the motet




Bruckner and secular vocal music




The symphonist



The Brucknerian symphony: an overview




Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation: the dialectic of darkness and light




Programme symphony and absolute music




Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited




Bruckner and the symphony orchestra




Between formlessness and formality: aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form




Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements




Bruckner and harmony




Reception



Conductors and Bruckner




The musical image of Bruckner



Notes


Select bibliography


Index