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Bruckner´s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics
Julian Horton
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Description for Bruckner´s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics
Hardback. An important 2004 study of Bruckner's symphonies from a comparative, inter-disciplinary perspective. Num Pages: 292 pages, 57 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH; AVRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 17. Weight in Grams: 748.
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. In this 2004 book, Julian Horton seeks fresh 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 ... Read more
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. In this 2004 book, Julian Horton seeks fresh 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521823548
SKU
V9780521823548
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About Julian Horton
Julian Horton is Lecturer in Music at University College Dublin. He contributed an essay to The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner (2003) and has also published articles and reviews on Brucknerian topics in Music and Letters and Music Analysis.
Reviews for Bruckner´s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics
Review of the hardback: 'Julian Horton has painstakingly explored Bruckner's symphonic output from assorted perspectives - historical, political and psychobiographical. The result is a fascinating reassessment of a unique musical universe. Horton's conclusions - that Bruckner's symphonies embody the conflicts between subjectivity and faith, artifice and innovation, bourgeois secularity and religious authority - are stimulatingly controversial. This is an important ... Read more