Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521379472)

Mahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler's grandiose piece of philosophical program music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects. In this original and wide-ranging account, Peter Franklin takes the Third Symphony as a representative modern European symphony of its period and evaluates the work as both the culmination of Mahler's early symphonic style and a work whose contradictory effects mirror the complexity of contemporary social and musical manners. The music is described in detail, movement by movement, with chapters on the genesis, early performance, and subsequent reception of the work.

Author: Peter Franklin
ISBN-10: 0521379474
ISBN-13: 9780521379472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/1991
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.43w x 0.34d