Word: mahlerian
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...show which pieces became part of adjacent schools of thought, which changed shape and became different schools of thought, and which were never used again. Suddenly, sentences like, “[Alban Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra] are fully symphonic in conception, Schoenbergian in content but Mahlerian in form” make total sense, as Berg, Schoenberg, and Mahler are all three simply components of Ross’s master architectural scheme, to be manipulated at will.Not surprisingly, to the extent that there is a fundamental narrative, it is the story of high...
...initial solo of the first movement may irritate those who swear undying allegiance to the French school of the oboe, but one must forgive the Vienna Philharmonic for playing on Mahlerian "period instruments...
...longest and most richly textured of jazz compositions -- a suite of 18 sections comprising nearly 4,000 bars of music, with a performance time of more than two hours. By jazz standards, the forces required to perform it are almost Mahlerian: a 31-member band with full complements of brass and saxes, plus such normally nonswinging instruments as piccolo and contrabass clarinet. The work was played once in the composer's lifetime, but in a truncated form that left him despairing and furious. The score was put aside, abandoned...
...TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS (Atlantic, 2 LPs). Bright aural mosaics from small motifs are constructed on a Mahlerian scale in this 80-minute work of symphonic rock...
Today the classical-rock groups are as diverse, bright and scholarly sounding as their names-Renaissance, Genesis, Electric Light Orchestra. By far the most provocative album of the past year is Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans (Atlantic; $11.98). A double-LP affair of almost Mahlerian proportions, Tales has four movements, each about 20 minutes long, that attempt to invoke the spirit and meaning of the shastras-"The Revealing Science of God," "The Remembering," "The Ancient" and "Ritual...