This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler''s Second Symphony, one of the composer''s most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler''s struggle to create what he called the New Symphony; his innovative approaches to traditional musical form; how he addressed the daunting challenges of writing music on a monumental scale; and how he dealt with the ineluctable force of Beethoven''s symphonic precedent, especially that of the Ninth Symphony.The central focus of Inside Mahler''s Second Symphony is on the music itself: how it works, how it works its magic on the listener, how it translates the earnest existential concerns that motivate the symphony into powerful and highly expressive music. Beyond this, the book ushers the Listener''s Guide into the digital age with 185 dedicated audio examples. They are brief, accessible, and arranged to flow from one to another to simulate how the symphony m
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