MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES

Could it be that the deliberately chosen solitude in the three Komponierhäuschen during the creative summers would isolate and, at the same time, free the composer from the music he had conducted during the seasons? Or, maybe just like the haunted castles, his symphonies will hide in their labyrint...

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Main Author: Ecaterina BANCIU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2018-06-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
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Online Access:http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/2298
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description Could it be that the deliberately chosen solitude in the three Komponierhäuschen during the creative summers would isolate and, at the same time, free the composer from the music he had conducted during the seasons? Or, maybe just like the haunted castles, his symphonies will hide in their labyrinth forsaken musical personalities, leaving in the themes, sometimes just transfigured fragments, the evidence of the composer’s admiration and devotion for the broken destinies. For those who will discover the overwhelming force of his music only decades later, Mahler will be the revelation of perfection in his multiple and varied roles and original masks, as well as through the surprises generated by the meeting of themes he liked – the great and departed. The present study began from the impact of Mahler’s music, as he himself would have liked it; it is well known the fact that he refuted more than once the initial program of his symphonies and the deciphering of his anthropomorphic enigmas creates just as many connections between the pre-sign – research of triggering biographical or socio-political events, act-sign – the specific of communication and post-sign – their hermeneutic and historical interpretation.
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spelling doaj.art-be792ebd1cfe45aca4f6b3c898276ee42024-01-05T09:41:43ZengBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica1844-43692065-96282018-06-0163110.24193/subbmusica.2018.1.05 MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES Ecaterina BANCIU0Ph.D. Professor, Theoretic Faculty, Musicology Department, „Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy, 25 Ion I.C. Brătianu Street, Cluj-Napoca. E-mail: kati_banciu@yahoo.com Could it be that the deliberately chosen solitude in the three Komponierhäuschen during the creative summers would isolate and, at the same time, free the composer from the music he had conducted during the seasons? Or, maybe just like the haunted castles, his symphonies will hide in their labyrinth forsaken musical personalities, leaving in the themes, sometimes just transfigured fragments, the evidence of the composer’s admiration and devotion for the broken destinies. For those who will discover the overwhelming force of his music only decades later, Mahler will be the revelation of perfection in his multiple and varied roles and original masks, as well as through the surprises generated by the meeting of themes he liked – the great and departed. The present study began from the impact of Mahler’s music, as he himself would have liked it; it is well known the fact that he refuted more than once the initial program of his symphonies and the deciphering of his anthropomorphic enigmas creates just as many connections between the pre-sign – research of triggering biographical or socio-political events, act-sign – the specific of communication and post-sign – their hermeneutic and historical interpretation. http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/2298Mahler, symphonies, symbol quotations.
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MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
Mahler, symphonies, symbol quotations.
title MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
title_full MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
title_fullStr MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
title_full_unstemmed MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
title_short MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
title_sort messages beyond the score or encoded meanings in mahler s symphonies
topic Mahler, symphonies, symbol quotations.
url http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/2298
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