9780486269542-048626954X-Three Song Cycles in Vocal Score: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied Von Der Erde (Dover Song Collections)

Three Song Cycles in Vocal Score: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied Von Der Erde (Dover Song Collections)

ISBN-13: 9780486269542
ISBN-10: 048626954X
Author: Gustav Mahler
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780486269542
ISBN-10: 048626954X
Author: Gustav Mahler
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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Three Song Cycles in Vocal Score: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied Von Der Erde (Dover Song Collections) (ISBN-13: 9780486269542 and ISBN-10: 048626954X), written by authors Gustav Mahler, was published by Dover Publications in 1992. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Instruments (Foreign Language Study & Reference, Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Three Song Cycles in Vocal Score: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied Von Der Erde (Dover Song Collections) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Instruments books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This convenient volume contains Mahler's three great song cycles in piano-vocal score, reprinted from authoritative German and Austrian editions. All three complete scores offer singers and musicians the opportunity to study and savor the compelling musical qualities of these famous works at the piano.
Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), the composer's first song cycle, is considered by many the masterpiece of his early period. A setting of his strongly autobiographical text, this is a revealing self-portrait of a young man. The haunting musical imagery of Songs of the Deaths of Children (Kindertotenlieder), Mahler's setting of five poems by Friedrich Rüchert, embodies the chromatic harmonies typical of his late work.
In The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde), Mahler combines the forms that most obsessed him — song and symphony — into a masterpiece that epitomized his musical genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism. Based on six poems translated from Chinese, the songs merge from passionate evocations of the pleasures of youth to dark and foreboding expressions of loneliness, sorrow, and farewell.

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