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Special Topic: The Music of Gustav Mahler

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Class 1

Why Listen to Mahler?

A Brief History of the Austro-Germanic Symphony..

Typical Classical Symphony Structure (as of the 1770's)  
This precedent informed all following symphonic works, both classical, romantic and modern.
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First movement (fast tempo): Sonata-allegro form, with at least two themes of substance (the second in a contrasting key) in an opening exposition section; a development section stressing motivic manipulation in addition to the tonal contrast characteristics of this section since its inception; and a recapitulation of the themes of the opening section, this time all in the original tonality.
Second movement (slow): Variation, part form, sonata-allegro or sonatina form.  Instrumentation was sometimes reduced to strings, with woodwinds and minimal brass noted in some movements.
Third movement (moderately fast); Minuet and trio.  The trio frequently featured solo woodwinds and strings, with little brass support.  The minuet was evolving more into a developmental form, especially in the contrasting middle section of the minuet proper.
Fourth movement (quite fast): Rondo, sonata-rondo, sonata-allegro forms used.  The movement lacked some of the formal complexity and development ingenuity of the first movement, this a continuation of the simpler and more dancelike spirit of the final movements of the early symphony.

​(excerpt from "The Symphony" by Preston Stedman. Prentice Hall, New Jersey; 1992.)
Examples of the Classical Symphony
Examples of the Romantic & Post-Romantic Symphony
1772: Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony
1773: young Mozart's  Symphony No. 25 
1788: Mozart's last,  "Jupiter" Symphony, No. 41
1800: Beethoven's Symphony No. 1
1804: Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony    No. 3 - First "Romantic" Symphony
1805: Beethoven Symphony No. 5
1812: Beethoven Symphony No. 7
1817: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - shatters the mold.  Written while he was completely deaf.
1822: Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony - only 2 movements.
1876: Brahms Symphony No. 1 - took 20 years to write because the "shadow" of Beethoven loomed so large.
1885: Brahms' last symphony, Symphony No. 4
1888: Mahler's Symphony No. 1
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Classes 2-3
Mahler's Origins
View Keeping Score: Mahler's Origins   0:00 - 16:00
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Mahler's First Symphony as a model
View Movement 1 (above)
Movement II: View Keeping Score: Mahler's Origins (26:30-30:32)
Movement III: View Keeping Score: Mahler's Origins (30:32-41:16)
Young Mahler & the completion of his First Symphony: View Keeping Score: Mahler's Origins (41:16-56:30)
Mahler's Fourth Symphony (early-mid career)
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Class  4

Mahler's Legacy

  • The Good Years: 1902-1906   View Keeping Score: Mahler's Legacy (17:36-22:00)​
  • The Tragic Years: 1907 - 1911    View Keeping Score: Mahler's Legacy ​(28:00-30:00)
  • Song of the Earth & the Ninth Symphony   View Keeping Score: Mahler's Legacy (33:50-37:27)
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Classes 5-6
Mahler's Ninth Symphony
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