John Williamson (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner

Herausgeber: Cross, Jonathan; Williamson, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780521804042
• ISBN-10: 0521804043
• Artikelnr.: 22712489

Autorenporträt

John Williamson is Reader in Music at the University of Liverpool. He is author of The Music of Hans Pfitzner (1992) and the Cambridge Music Handbook Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck John Williamson
2. Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century Andrea Harrandt
3. Bruckner in Vienna Andrea Harrandt
Part II. Choral Music: 4. Bruckner's large sacred compositions Paul Hawkshaw
5. Bruckner and the motet A. Crawford Howie
6. Bruckner and secular vocal music A. Crawford Howie
Part III. The Symphonist: 7. The Brucknerian symphony: an overview John Williamson
8. Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation: the dialectic of darkness and light Derek B. Scott
9. Programme symphony and absolute music John Williamson
10. Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited Benjamin M. Korstvedt
11. Bruckner and the symphony orchestra Julian Horton
12. Between formlessness and formality: aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form Benjamin M. Korstvedt
13. Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements Margaret Notley
14. Bruckner and Harmony Kevin Swinden
Part IV. Reception: 15. Conductors and Bruckner John Williamson
16. The musical image of Bruckner Christa Brüstle.