Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies by Johnson, Julian

Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195372397)

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Format: Hardcover
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Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies by Johnson, Julian

Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies

$94.00
Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies by Johnson, Julian

Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies

$94.00
Format: Hardcover
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Johnson considers how Mahler's body of music foregrounds the idea of artifice, construction and musical convention while also presenting itself as act of authentic expression and disclosure. This study of brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation.

Author: Julian Johnson
ISBN-10: 0195372395
ISBN-13: 9780195372397
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2009
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d
By Julian Johnson
By Julian Johnson
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Julian Johnson is Professor of Music, Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2001-2007 he was a Reader in Music and a Fellow of St. Anne's College at the University of Oxford, and recipient of the Dent Medal (2005) awarded by the Royal Musical Association for "outstanding contributions to musicology." Author of Webern and the Transformation of Nature (Cambridge, 1999) and Who Needs Classical Music? (OUP, 2002).

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