Bruckner's symphonies
Subtitle: analysis, reception, and cultural politics
By: Julian Horton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation; Symphonies -- Analysis, appreciation
Description: Few works in the nineteenth-century repertoire have aroused such extremes of hostility and admiration, or have generated so many scholarly problems, as Anton Bruckner's symphonies. Julian Horton seeks new ways of understanding the symphonies and the problems they have accrued by treating them as the focus for a variety of inter-disciplinary debates and methodological controversies. He isolates problematic areas in the works' analysis and reception, and approaches them from a range of analytical, historical, philosophical, literary critical and psychoanalytical viewpoints. The symphonies are thus explored in the context of a number of crucial and sometimes provocative themes, including the political circumstances of the works' production, Bruckner and post-war musical analysis, issues of musical influence, the problem of editions, Bruckner and psychobiography, and the composer's controversial relationship to the Nazis [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: The critical problem --; title: Bruckner and late nineteenth-century Vienna : analysis and historical context --; title: Right-wing cultural politics and the Nazi appropriation of Bruckner --; title: Bruckner and musical analysis --; title: Bruckner and the construction of musical influence --; title: Analysis and the problem of the editions --; title: Psychobiography and analysis --; title: Bruckner and his contexts.