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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Benjamin M. Korstvedt
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| Series | Cambridge Music Handbooks |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:148 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 139 |
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| Category/Genre | Bands, groups and musicians
Orchestras |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521635370
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| Classifications | Dewey:784.2184 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | General | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
21 Printed music items
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
30 March 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and provides an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.
Reviews'What [this book] does reveal is enough to keep Bruckner-enthusiasts agonising and arguing for decades.' BBC Music Magazine
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