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The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner(Cambridge Companions to Music Series) »
Authors: John Williamson
ISBN-13: 9780521008785, ISBN-10: 0521008786
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: John Williamson
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).
Book Synopsis
Sixteen essays by leading experts provide an introduction to Bruckner's life and works in all genres.
Table of Contents
| Pt. I | Background | |
| 1 | Introduction : a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck | 3 |
| 2 | Musical life in upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century | 15 |
| 3 | Bruckner in Vienna | 26 |
| Pt. II | Choral music | |
| 4 | Bruckner's large sacred compositions | 41 |
| 5 | Bruckner and the motet | 54 |
| 6 | Bruckner and secular vocal music | 64 |
| Pt. III | The symphonist | |
| 7 | The Brucknerian symphony : a overview | 79 |
| 8 | Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation : the dialectic of darkness and light | 92 |
| 9 | Programme symphony and absolute music | 108 |
| 10 | Bruckner editions : the revolution revisited | 121 |
| 11 | Bruckner and the symphony orchestra | 138 |
| 12 | Between formlessness and formality : aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form | 170 |
| 13 | Formal process as spiritual progress : the symphonic slow movements | 190 |
| 14 | Bruckner and Harmony | 205 |
| Pt. IV | Reception | |
| 15 | Conductors and Bruckner | 231 |
| 16 | The musical image of Bruckner | 244 |
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