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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      01 April 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511620218
      9780521400763
      9780521409353
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620218
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.281kg, 140 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.19kg, 140 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is one of his most controversial works. Its greatest popularity has been achieved when its connection with Nietzsche's book of the same name has seemed less relevant than its associations with Kubrick's film 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Although its early critical reception was mixed, it is nowadays one of the staples of the virtuoso orchestra, and a standard demonstration piece for innovations in recording technique. Its opening bars have become a kind of icon independent of the rest of the work. This guide examines the intellectual background of the work and considers ways in which it has been received by composers and writers, notably Romain Rolland and Bartok. It also discusses the musical background of Liszt and Wagner which gave rise to the genre, 'tone poem', and provides an analysis of several aspects of Strauss's musical language.

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