Sibelius studies /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:xx, 397 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
French
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4412362
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Other authors / contributors:Jackson, Timothy L.
Murtomàˆki, Veijo.
ISBN:0521624169 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
One essay in French.
Table of Contents:
  • List of plates
  • Preface
  • Part I. Reception History and Aesthetics
  • 1. An essay in post-colonial analysis: Sibelius as an icon of the Finns and others
  • 2. From Kajanus to Karajan: Sibelius on record
  • 3. 'Sibelius the Progressive' Tim Howell
  • Part II. Ideology and Structure
  • 4. Kullervo's problem - Kullervo's story
  • 5. Sibelius and the theater: a study of the incidental music for Symbolist plays
  • 6. Sibelius's symphonic ballad Skogsrset: biographical and programmatic aspects of his early orchestral music
  • 7. Pohjola's Daughter - 'L'aventure d'un hTros'
  • 8. Observations on crystallization and entropy in the music of Sibelius and other composers
  • Part III. Analytical Studies of the Symphonies
  • 9. Meter in the opening of the Second Symphony
  • 10. The musical language of the Fourth Symphony
  • 11. Rotations, sketches and the Sixth Symphony
  • 12. Continuity and design in the Seventh Symphony
  • Index