Essays about: "Mahler"

Found 3 essays containing the word Mahler.

1. 1. Gustav Mahler’s First Trombone

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Vanessa Ritchie-Suarez; [2021-10-21]
   Keywords : Mahler; trombone; orchestral excerpt; solo;

   Abstract : This thesis project will explore the development of performance practice, sound and style since the 1st trombone solo in Mahler’s Third Symphony. My research into topics such as instrument design, conductors and recording technology will hopefully show how and why the performance of this excerpt has developed over the last century. READ MORE

3. 2. Blue Eyes, Lacanian Real : A psychoanalytic reading of Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Marco Rep; [2019]
   Keywords : Gustav Mahler; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Psychoanalysis; Lacan; Žižek; three Orders; Repetition compulsion;

   Abstract : Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (first published 1887) feature as their only character a miserable wayfarer who laments his unrequited love for someone and who, in spite of all his beautiful pastoral surroundings, cannot help but feel deep unhappiness. Using Lacan’s three orders (Imaginary, Symbolic and Real) and further developments of his theory by Slavoj Žižek in The Sublime Object of Ideology, I argue that the eyes of the wayfarer’s beloved are the Lacanian Real that disrupts his symbolic network and thus are the origin of his traumatic existence. READ MORE

4. 3. Music vs Words : Exploring the Problematic State of Semantic Meaning in Music

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Berk Sirman; [2009]
   Keywords : music; meaning; semantic;

   Abstract : Musical language does not carry obvious semantic meaning. The question of whether music has semantic meaning, or how it does, has been an age old question in musicology. READ MORE