Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables List of Music Examples List of Audio Examples Acknowledgements Preface The Recording How to Use this Book Part One: Preliminaries Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for the Second Symphony Part Two: The Five Movements Chapter 2 First Movement: The Opening and a Two-part Exposition Chapter 3 First Movement: Development and Recapitulation Chapter 4 The Second Movement Chapter 5 A Song Serves as a Study for the Third Movement Chapter 6 The Third Movement: Scherzo and Trio Chapter 7 The Fourth Movement: "Urlicht" Chapter 8 How to Complete the Symphony Chapter 9 The Last Movement, Part 1: References to Judgment and the Airing of Themes Chapter 10 The Last Movement, Part 2: Judgment in Action, Musical Development, and Some Continuing Enigmas Chapter 11 The Last Movement, Part 3: Collapse, Climactic Resolution, a Stunning Reversal, and Celebration Appendices Appendix 1 The Formal Template for the First Movement: Sonata Form Appendix 2 Second-Movement Forms Appendix 3 The Origins, Character, and Form of the Scherzo Appendix 4 Complete Performances of Each Movement Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author

Lawrence F. Bernstein is the Karen and Gary Rose Emeritus Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received several awards for distinguished teaching. He also taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and Rutgers University, and at the University of Chicago. His specialty is Renaissance music, in which field he concentrated on the French chanson and on the music of Jean d'Ockeghem. He
served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and as Founding Editor of AMS Studies in Music. Bernstein was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. In 2009, he was elected an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.

Reviews

Readers can prepare for an enlightened appreciation of the whole symphony in performance.
*M. Dineen, CHOICE*

This book offers an intriguing, engaging and provocative account of a monumental masterpiece. At one and the same time, Bernstein has written a closely argued guide to the work, helpful to the first-time listener, and also a sophisticated and often unconventional interpretation that can inspire the scholar and connoisseur to reflect not only on Mahler, but on how music creates and conveys meaning and helps to fashion beliefs, faith and values. This is a novel and valuable contribution to our understanding of an icon within the symphonic repertoire.
*Leon Botstein, President, Bard College; Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra*

It is as if the author were looking over Mahler's shoulder while he composed his extraordinary second symphony. I have never read such an illuminating, so detailed, yet always accessible analysis of this universal masterwork on life, suffering, death, and resurrection. Bernstein is able to convey his profound love for the piece majestically, revealing the true meaning of the music while sharing its composer's most intimate creative process. He is indeed the ultimate guide who, with the use of many audio examples online, invites everyone on a fascinating journey, to climb Mahler's formidable mountain and see the primeval light at the summit.
*Stéphane Denève, Music Director, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Brussels Philharmonic*

Bernstein proves an authoritative and engaging guide through Mahler's epic work. His book will be of great value to any listener or performer seeking a deeper appreciation of this keystone of the symphonic repertory.
*Walter Frisch, Gumm/von Tilzer Professsor of Music, Columbia University*