Monahan, Seth - Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas

Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas investigates Gustav Mahler's dynamic and career-long engagement with sonata-allegro form.

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CONTENTS

Contents
Acknowledgements
On the Accompanying Short Scores
Introduction
Part I
Interpreting Mahler's Sonata Forms
Chapter 1: Sonata Form in Mahler's Narrative Imagination
Chapter 2: Adorno's Novel-Symphony: The Dialectic of Freedom and Determinism
Chapter 3: Issues in Mahlerian Narrative
Part II
Mahler's Classical Sonatas
Chapter 4: A Demonic Haydn: Mahler's Confrontation with Tradition in the First Movement of the Sixth
Chapter 5: A Play within a Play: Games of Closure and Contingency in the First Movement of the Fourth
Part III
Mahler's Epic Sonatas
Chapter 6: The Objectification of Chaos: Epic Form and Narrative Multiplicity in Part One of the Third
Chapter 7: Tragedy refuses a nominalist form: Inescapable Coherence and the Failure of the Novel-Symphony in the Finale of the Sixth
Works Cited

Series	Oxford Studies in Music Theory