The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing
on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history
and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative
of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical
commentaries on the works and critical accounts of the notoriously
complex and editorial issues. Gault corrects longstanding misconceptions
about the composer's revision process, and its relationship with the
early editions and widely-held critical opinions. Bruckner's constantly
evolving engagement with symphonic form is traced by taking each
revision in due order, rather than by taking each symphony on its own,
and by relating the symphonies to other mature works such as the Te
Deum, the three great Masses, and the Quintet, and argues that
Bruckner's music became more organic and less schematic as the result of
his revisions. The book will be essential reading for those studying
Bruckner's compositions, the complex history of their reception, and
late Romantic music in general.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Tradition and innovation; Masses and
early symphonies; The emergence of the 'Bruckner symphony';
Consolidation and revision; Four masterpieces; Bruckner and his
disciples; The 8th symphony; The final decade; Anomalies of history;
Appendix; Select bibliography; Index
About the Author: Dermot Gault was born in Belfast and studied music at
Queen's University Belfast, where he obtained a doctorate for a thesis
on Bruckner's symphonies in 1994. He has contributed to The Bruckner
Journal since its inception and addressed Bruckner Conferences in
Nottingham and Oxford. He has also contributed to Music Ireland and The
Irish Times.
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Illustrations: Includes 39 musical examples
Published: December 2010
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 294 pages
Binding: Hardback
