Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of Gustav Mahler's most controversial work, based on a confrontation between genetic and analytic approaches. Exposing new facets of Mahler's musical humor, this book freshly reconsiders the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of Gustav Mahler's most controversial work, based on a confrontation between genetic and analytic approaches. Exposing new facets of Mahler's musical humor, this book freshly reconsiders the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.
Anna Stoll Knecht is the recipient of an Ambizione research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Previously she was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Music and Jesus College), engaged in a project on Gustav Mahlers interpretation of Richard Wagner, both as a composer and a conductor.
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Introduction Chapter 1: Premiere and Reception Premiere Reception The "problems" of the Seventh Chapter 2: Structure, Interpretation and Genesis Structure Main interpretive leads Genesis Chapter 3: Compositional History Autobiographical and biographical evidence Musical evidence Chapter 4: Rondo-Finale Form and content Interpretive views Chapter 5: Genesis of the Rondo-Finale The Vienna sketchbook and the Moldenhauer sketches The Paris sketchbook leaves and the Moldenhauer sketches Other sketches and drafts for the Finale Chapter 6: Nachtmusiken The first Nachtmusik The second Nachtmusik Chapter 7: Scherzo Dancing death Structure Sketches and drafts Walpurgis night Chapter 8: First Movement Beginning of the Seventh Form and content Sketches and drafts (Auto)biography, genesis and interpretation Chapter 9: Die Meistersinger in the Seventh Symphony The Meistersinger references in the Finale Quartal harmony in the Seventh and Meistersinger Preliminary sketches in the Vienna sketchbook E minor to C major: from Night to Day Mahler and Beckmesser Conclusion What the genesis tells us "Problems" of the Seventh From tragedy to comedy Beginnings and ends Appendices: A: Manuscripts and editions of the Seventh Symphony B: Mahler discography M: Motivic tables F: Formal tables CSk: Correspondences between the sketches MSk: Motivic table for the sketches Synopsis of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Bibliography
Introduction Chapter 1: Premiere and Reception Premiere Reception The "problems" of the Seventh Chapter 2: Structure, Interpretation and Genesis Structure Main interpretive leads Genesis Chapter 3: Compositional History Autobiographical and biographical evidence Musical evidence Chapter 4: Rondo-Finale Form and content Interpretive views Chapter 5: Genesis of the Rondo-Finale The Vienna sketchbook and the Moldenhauer sketches The Paris sketchbook leaves and the Moldenhauer sketches Other sketches and drafts for the Finale Chapter 6: Nachtmusiken The first Nachtmusik The second Nachtmusik Chapter 7: Scherzo Dancing death Structure Sketches and drafts Walpurgis night Chapter 8: First Movement Beginning of the Seventh Form and content Sketches and drafts (Auto)biography, genesis and interpretation Chapter 9: Die Meistersinger in the Seventh Symphony The Meistersinger references in the Finale Quartal harmony in the Seventh and Meistersinger Preliminary sketches in the Vienna sketchbook E minor to C major: from Night to Day Mahler and Beckmesser Conclusion What the genesis tells us "Problems" of the Seventh From tragedy to comedy Beginnings and ends Appendices: A: Manuscripts and editions of the Seventh Symphony B: Mahler discography M: Motivic tables F: Formal tables CSk: Correspondences between the sketches MSk: Motivic table for the sketches Synopsis of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Bibliography
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