The New Bruckner

Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision

Dermot Gault (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24607-2 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical commentaries on the works and critical accounts of the notoriously complex and editorial issues. Gault corrects longstanding misconceptions about the composer's revision process, and its relationship with the early editions and widely-held critical opinions. Bruckner's constantly evolving engagement with symphonic form is traced by taking each revision in due order, rather than by taking each symphony on its own, and by relating the symphonies to other mature works such as the Te Deum, the three great Masses, and the Quintet, and argues that Bruckner's music became more organic and less schematic as the result of his revisions. The book will be essential reading for those studying Bruckner's compositions, the complex history of their reception, and late Romantic music in general.

Dermot Gault was born in Belfast and studied music at Queen's University Belfast, where he obtained a doctorate for a thesis on Bruckner's symphonies in 1994. He has contributed to The Bruckner Journal since its inception and addressed Bruckner Conferences in Nottingham and Oxford. He has also contributed to Music Ireland and The Irish Times.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Tradition and innovation; Masses and early symphonies; The emergence of the 'Bruckner symphony'; Consolidation and revision; Four masterpieces; Bruckner and his disciples; The 8th symphony; The final decade; Anomalies of history; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	1-138-24607-7 / 1138246077
ISBN-13	978-1-138-24607-2 / 9781138246072
Zustand	Neuware