The total work of art
Subtitle: Mahler's eighth symphony in context
By: edited by Elisabeth Kappel
Series: Studien zur Wertungsforschung -- v. 52; Studien zur Wertungsforschung -- v. 52.
Publisher: Universal Edition
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vienna; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783702470753
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Congresses
Notes: "Most of the essays ... were presented at the conference A Work of Art of the Higher Artistic Order: Text and Context of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony in Ottawa ... 16-18 June 2010"--P. 12.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Elisabeth Kappel - The 'Creative Spirit', Faust, and Mahler's Eighth Symphony: From Medieval to Modern in 80 Minutes / Zoltan Roman - "It Must Have Something Cosmic about It": The Intellectual and Spiritual Universe of Mahler's Eighth Symphony / Christian Wildhagen - Individualism for the Masses: Aesthetic Paradox in Mahler's Symphonic Thought / Andreas Dorschel - 'A Time of Gifts': Mahler's Eighth, Fassbinder's Cinema, and Musical Politics / Jeremy Barham - From Zionism to Assimilation: Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, and the Aesthetics of Redemption / Karen Painter - Two Languages; title: One Symphony: Mahler's Eighth / Hartmut Krones - "A Single Tremendously Long and Wide Thought": The Orchestral Introduction to Part 2 of Mahler's Eighth Symphony / Elisabeth Kappel - Technique and Aesthetics of Mahler's Large Orchestra / Klaus Aringer - Goethe's Faust in the Austro-German Musical Imagination of the 19th Century / James Deaville - The Wagnerian Roots of Mahler's Eighth Symphony / Stephen McClatchie - Mahler, Pfitzner and the Relationship between Symphony and Cantata / John Williamson - "Building a New World": Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schöenberg (ca. 1905-1911) / James Wright - Macrocosm; title: Microcosm: About the Influence of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony on the Work of Anton Webern / Oliver Korte - "A Work of Art of Higher Artistic Order": The Eighth as Mahler's 'Gesamtkunstwerk' / Peter Revers.