Awards

• Winner of Winner of the Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar book award 2017.
• Winner of Winner of the Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar book award 2017.

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Author:   Seth Monahan (Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, Rochester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780199303465

ISBN 10:   0199303460
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements On the Accompanying Short Scores Introduction Part I Interpreting Mahler's Sonata Forms Chapter 1: Sonata Form in Mahler's Narrative Imagination Chapter 2: Adorno's Novel-Symphony: The Dialectic of Freedom and Determinism Chapter 3: Issues in Mahlerian Narrative Part II Mahler's Classical Sonatas Chapter 4: A Demonic Haydn : Mahler's Confrontation with Tradition in the First Movement of the Sixth Chapter 5: A Play within a Play : Games of Closure and Contingency in the First Movement of the Fourth Part III Mahler's Epic Sonatas Chapter 6: The Objectification of Chaos : Epic Form and Narrative Multiplicity in Part One of the Third Chapter 7: Tragedy refuses a nominalist form : Inescapable Coherence and the Failure of the Novel-Symphony in the Finale of the Sixth Works Cited

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Mahler's continuing relevance relies on studies like this, which bring out perspectives that invite discussion of music that engages audiences at various levels. - Notes

Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas contains the most detailed, sophisticated, and insightful analytical readings of Mahler's music in existence. From every one of the book's analyses, the reader comes away with the intensely satisfying feeling of having come to know, indeed understand, a great piece of music better. If only more music theory were like this! For those reasons alone, the book is a milestone. --Steven Vande Moortele, Music Theory Spectrum Mahler's continuing relevance relies on studies like this, which bring out perspectives that invite discussion of music that engages audiences at various levels. - Notes

Author Information

Seth Monahan is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2008 and has since published widely on a range of topics, including the interpretation of Classical and Romantic form, Wagnerian harmony, and the uses of metaphor in analytical writing.

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