Research Catalog

Title

Mahler's symphonic sonatas / Seth Monahan.

Author

Monahan, Seth

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Description

x, 278 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Summary

Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically inert? Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas offers a striking new take on this old dilemma. Indeed, it poses these questions seriously for the first time. Rather than downplaying Mahler's sonata designs as distracting anachronisms or innocuous ground plans, author Seth Monahan argues that for much of his career, Mahler used the inner, goal-directed dynamics of sonata form as the basis for some of his most gripping symphonic stories. -- from dust jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in music theory

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Oxford studies in music theory

Subject

• Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
• Mahler, Gustav 1860-1911
• Symphonies (Mahler, Gustav)
• Sonata form
• Sonata form
• Sinfonie
• Sonatensatzform

Note

• Includes companion website with annotated short scores and larger diagrams and figures.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index (pages 273-278).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Interpreting Mahler's sonata forms. Sonata form in Mahler's narrative imagination ; Adorno's "Novel-Symphony": the dialectic of freedom and determinism ; Dimensions of Mahlerian narrativity -- Part II. Mahler's "Classical" sonatas. "A demonic Haydn": Mahler's confrontation with tradition in the first movement of the sixth ; A play within a play: games of closure and contingency in the first movement of the Fourth -- Part III. Mahler's "Epic" sonatas. The objectification of chaos: epic form and narrative multiplicity in part one of the Third ; Tragedy refuses a nominalist form: "Inescapable" coherence and the failure of the Novel-Symphony in the finale of the Sixth.

ISBN

• 9780199303465
• 0199303460

LCCN

^^2014003319

OCLC

• 870147546
• SCSB-10173275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library