AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics.(Book review)

Notes

| June 01, 2006 | Korstvedt, Benjamin M. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics. By Julian Horton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [x, 280 p. ISBN 0-521-82354-4. $75.] Music examples, bibliography, index.

Julian Horton's Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics is the work of an energetic, musically astute scholarly mind pursuing an important and challenging task, namely "to establish grounds for understanding Bruckner that do justice to an unmediated sense of music-historical and analytic significance that I never quite managed to reconcile with prevailing debates" (p. viii). Horton begins by taking aim at the "'Bruckner problem' in the ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Bruckner: guilty or not guilty?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson January 10, 1996 700+ words
...marble bust of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (who died in 1896) was placed on a...bearing on questions about performing Bruckner today, questions that have already begun...lingering question of the relation of Bruckner's music to Hitler'smusical and ideological...
Anton Bruckner Chronologie.
Magazine article from: Notes Korstvedt, Benjamin M. September 1, 1997 700+ words
In Anton Bruckner Chronologie Franz Scheder has attempted, quite successfully...assemble an exhaustive chronological accounting of Anton Bruckner's life. Beginning even before Bruckner's birth (two pages are devoted to Bruckner's forebears...
THOUGH FLAWED, BRUCKNER'S MUSIC HIT HOME IF HANDLED RIGHT.(ACCENT)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 24, 1994 700+ words
...the Vienna Philharmonic in 1877, Anton Bruckner turned to the audience expecting triumphant...changed. More and more conductors program Bruckner today, and probably just as many people...for the exits when James Judd revives Bruckner's Fifth Symphony with the Florida Philharmonic...
Symphony goes on a Bruckner adventure in Cathedral concert.
Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) May 10, 2007 700+ words
...Consider a musical voyage aboard the S.S. Bruckner, a journey in which dark and quiet depths...could be a gift Mom never forgets. "Bruckner's Eighth Symphony is the zenith of...the Austrian composer. This time, the Bruckner adventure, a National City Bank special...
SEMINAR HELPS BRING VITALITY TO BRUCKNER.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 21, 1996 700+ words
...EMERY Special to the Times Union Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer who wrote 10...Haydn and Mozart or Ravel and Debussy, Bruckner, who was born in 1824 and died in 1896...Mahler's music into prominence. But Bruckner's music, on the other hand, is hardly...
Form und Metrik: Zahlen in den Symphonien von Anton Bruckner.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes Korstvedt, Benjamin M. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...Metrik: Zahlen in den Symphonien von Anton Bruckner. By Wolfgang Grandjean. (Publikationen...examples, illustrations, bibliography. Bruckner Symphonien in Bearbeitungen: Die Konzepte der Bruckner-Schuler und ihre Rezeption bis zu Robert...
Gunter Wand Edition. Part I: Bruckner, Haydn, Schubert.
Magazine article from: Notes Papanikolaou, Eftychia September 1, 2006 700+ words
Gunter Wand Edition. Part I: Bruckner, Haydn, Schubert. DVD. NDR Sinfonieorchester...the past decade, performances of Anton Bruckner's and Gustav Mahler's symphonies...overwhelming reversal, especially since Bruckner and Mahler find paradigmatic interpretations...
Zander, Philharmonic undaunted by Bruckner
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff October 14, 1996 700+ words
...Schubert didn't know how to finish it. Bruckner was still at work on the finale to his...includes performances of the sketches Bruckner left for the finale and a new conjectural...traditionally, though, only the three movements Bruckner completed are performed and that's...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA