Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Beginning with Poco adagio and making numerous tempo changes some of which will be mentioned below.Key: E-flat minor (Introduction) with several intermittent key changes and ending in E-flat major.Time Signature: 4/4 with occasional meter shifts.Form: Introduction and combination of sonata elements (Exposition and Development) with variations and strophic forms that incorporate aspects of… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part II – Schluss-Szene Aus Goethes Faust II (Final Scene of Goethe’s Faust II)
Month: November 2010
Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part I – Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus (Come, Creator Spirit)
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Allegro impetuoso; etwas gemässigter, immer sehr fliessend (somewhat more moderate, always very fleeting); etwas gehalten (somewhat held back)Key: E-flat major (second theme in D-flat major; third theme in D minor, with excursions into E major and minor, D-flat and A-flat major, etc.)Time signature: 4/4 (with intervening duple and triple meters in the… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part I – Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus (Come, Creator Spirit)
Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Introduction
Listening Guide The Work Date of composition: summer, 1906; orchestrated in 1907; published by Universal Editions, February 1911.Place of composition: MaierniggPremiere: Munich, 12 September 1910, Mahler conducting. Orchestration: Piccolo (or double as 5th flute), 4 flutes, 4 oboes, English horn; clarinet in E-flat, 3 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 4 bassoons, contrabassoon, 8 horns, 4 trumpets,… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Introduction
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Fifth Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Allegro ordinario ; Maestoso; Sempre l’istesso tempo; Gemessen! Nicht Schnell! (Measured! Not fast!); Grazioso; Immer noch Tempo II (still in Tempo II), etc.Key: C major (opening briefly in E minor); second subject in A-flat major with occasional ventures into A, G-flat, B-flat and B major and a brief incursion… Continue reading Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Fifth Movement
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Fourth Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Andante Amoroso; Mit Aufschwung (With verve); Graziosissimo; Sehr Fliessend (very fleeting),etc.Key: F Major (with a middle section in A-flat major and B-flat Major with modulations)Time Signature: 2/4Form: ABACA-DE-ABACA
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Third Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Schattenhaft. Fliessend, aber nicht schnell, an der Anfangstahten noch etwas zogernd. (Shadowy. Fleeting, but not too fast, the beginning still somewhat hesitant.); etwas flotter (somewhat brisker); klagend (lamenting); PesanteKey: D minor with Trio in D major.Time Signature: 3/4Form: Scherzo and Trio (with Introduction, Coda and sonata-like development sections)
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Second Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo:Allegro Moderato; Tempo subito, molto moderato (Andante); Sempre l’istesso tempo; Gehalten; Poco meno mossoKey: C minor/major (first Trio in A-flat major; second Trio in F minor)Time Signature: 4/4Form: ABACABA (with Introduction and Coda)
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – First Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo:Langsam (Adagio); Allegro risoluto, ma non troppoKey: Beginning in B minor and modulating progressively to E minor and concluding in E major.Time Signature: 4/4Form: Sonata form
Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Introduction
Listening Guide The Work Occasionally, the subtitle The Song of the Night has been appended to the Seventh Symphony, presumably relating to the two movements (the second and fourth) that Mahler entitled Nachtmusik. However, Mahler did not append a subtitle to the symphony. Regarding the symphony’s principal key, some have referred to it as… Continue reading Symphony No. 7 In B Minor/E Minor – Introduction