Barham, Jeremy - Rethinking Mahler

In symphony and song, meaning and legacy, Mahler continues to present contradictory challenges. Rethinking Mahler locates the composer's music in a rich, multi-layered historical network in order to address these challenges, offering a fresh assessment of the debt he owed to his own musical and cultural past, and exploring new avenues in his posthumous reception and understanding.

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CONTENTS

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Music Examples
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mahler's Times
Jeremy Barham
PART I Repertoires and Structures of the Past
1. Fantasy, Denial and Virtual Reality in Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Benjamin K. Davies
2. Mining the Past for New Expressions: Song Form as Narrative Device In
Mahler's Ballads from Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Molly M. Breckling
3. The Earliness of Mahler's Late Romanticism: The poetics of the 'Deceptive
Perfect Cadence' in the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde
Mark Summerfield
4. 'Pedester ist der Musikstoff, sublim der Vortrag.' Mahler's Scherzos as
Impulses for the Evolution of Musical Language
Mathieu Schneider
5. Forming Form through Force: Bruckner, Mahler, and the Structural Function of
Highpoints
Alessandro Cecchi
6. Die Meistersinger in Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Anna Stoll-Knecht
7. Idyllic Masks of Death: References to Orphee aux Enfers in 'Das himmlische
Leben'
Lorant Peteri
PART II Stage, Screen and Popular Cultures
8. Mahler and the Myth of the Total Symphony
James Buhler
9. On the British Reception of Ken Russell's Mahler
Eftychia Papanikolaou,
10. Popular Music and the Colloquial Tone in the Posthorn Solos of Mahler's Third
Symphony
Timothy Freeze
11. Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Max Reinhardt's Concept of
Massenregie
Peter Revers
PART III Varieties of Historical and Aesthetic Experience
12. The Particularity of the Moment
Julian Johnson
13. Gustav Mahler and the Aesthetics of De-Identification
Federico Celestini,
14. Decadent Transitions: Mahler, Modernism, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle
Zoltan Roman
15. Justine Mahler's Faust Notebook: an Introduction
Stephen E. Hefling
16. Abridging Mahler's Symphonies: a Historical Perspective
Matthew Mugmon
17. Mahler and the Game of History
Jeremy Barham
Bibliography
Index