Sibelius's Seventh Symphony: Genesis, Design, Structure, and Meaning

This study explores Sibelius's last and, perhaps, most enigmatic Symphony from historical (source-critical), Schenkerian, and transtextual perspectives. Through a detailed study of its genesis, musical architecture, and meaning, the author maintains that the Seventh, its composer, and its generative process, can best be understood as a series of verges: conceptual points of interaction between two or more forces. Verges between Sibelius's nature mysticism and the dramatic biographical circumstances of the period (1914-1924), between inspired and reasoned modes of composition, between genres (symphony and fantasy), between various form types, between tragic despair and hopeful yearning, between innovation and classicism, and between a host of other seeming oppositions, all define the Seventh Symphony and illuminate various facets of the composer's life and thought.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• Pavlak, F. William

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jackson, Timothy L.
• Cooper, J. Michael
• Slottow, Stephen P.

• Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957. Symphonies, no. 7, op. 105, C major.
• Jean Sibelius
• Symphony No. 7
• Schenkerian analysis
• musical genesis
• meaning

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Pavlak, F. William, II
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 57203497
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