Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 /

Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music, at once extensive and distilled, directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Korstvedt, Benjamin M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, Ã2000.
Series:Cambridge music handbooks.
Subjects:
Bruckner, Anton, > 1824-1896. > Symphonies, > no. 8, > C minor.
Bruckner, Anton, > 1824-1896. > Symphonies, > no 8, > do mineur.
Symphonies (Bruckner, Anton)
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Electronic books.
Symphonies.
Art music.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Placing the Eighth Symphony
  • The genesis and evolution of the Eighth Symphony
  • The musical design and symphonic agenda of the Eighth
  • The Adagio and the sublime
  • The 1887 version of the 1890 version
  • The 1892 edition, authorship, and performance practice
  • App. A. Haas's edition of the Eighth Symphony
  • App. B. Textual differences between The Finale in the 1890 version and the the 1892 edition.

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