Hidden Treasures : Cultural, Social and Political Commentary in Mahler s Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Molly M. Breckling

ISBN 10: 1638040400 / ISBN 13: 9781638040408

Edité par Clemson University Digital Press Mai 2023, 2023

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Neuware - 'This study explores Mahler's songs based on poetry from an 1805 collection of German folk poetry entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, collected by Arnim and Brentano, and identifies the connections the composer found between these products of Germany's folk past and his own cultural, social and political environments'.

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• Titre: Hidden Treasures : Cultural, Social and Political Commentary in Mahler s Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
• Éditeur: Clemson University Digital Press Mai 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1638040400
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781638040408
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 239 L x 163 H x 0 P (en millimètres) 239 millimètres de largeur par 163 millimètres de hauteur par 0 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 478 grammes

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Synopsis

Gustav Mahler once said, “With song you can express so much more in the music than the words directly say. The text is actually a mere indication of the… hidden treasure within.” Over fourteen years, from 1887-1901, he devoted his compositional output almost exclusively to texts and ideas drawn from a collection of German folk poetry entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, resulting in twenty-four songs which heavily inspired his first four symphonies. This study explores Mahler’s songs based on this poetry and identifies the connections the composer found between these products of Germany’s folk past and his own contemporary environment. The songs he created comment on and engage with Vienna’s musical life, Freudian theory, Mahler’s religious life, his family relationships, his views on women and romance, economic inequality, and wartime violence. As remnants of a folk tradition, the poems contained in Des Knaben Wunderhorn served the purpose of instructing young people on ways of conducting themselves, just as fairy tales do today. Mahler’s adaptation of these stories and his updating of them to serve audiences of his own time demonstrate the universality of the lessons these poems provide, both to audiences of Mahler’s day, and also to our own.

À propos de l'auteur

Molly M. Breckling is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rollins College. Her research interests include Nineteenth-Century Lieder, particularly that of Gustav Mahler, and Music History Pedagogy. Dr. Breckling has presented her research at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the American Comparative Literature Association, and the German Studies Association and at an International Mahler Centenary Conference held at the University of Surrey in 2010. She has published writings in anthologies on Mahler and ethical approaches to Music History Pedagogy and in journals such as Notes and Ars Lyrica.