Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers since its first performance just over a century ago. Professor Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Pathétique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death. The book covers the work's conception, genesis, and reception, and presents an in-depth analysis of its remarkable formal structure. The reception chapter investigates the Pathétique's impact on Tchaikovsky's younger contemporaries as well as its political interpretation in the twentieth century, especially its transformation into a cultural icon of the Third Reich. |
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Contents
Pathetic metaphors for sexuality and race gambling and destiny | 1 |
Background and early reception | 13 |
Form and largescale harmony | 22 |
The notsosecret program a hypothesis | 36 |
Compositional genesis the Six Romances Op 73 and the Pathetique | 74 |
Deconstructing homosexual grande passion pathetique | 83 |
Platonic postlude | 114 |
Appendices | 116 |
Notes | 122 |
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Adagio lamentoso Adagio-Finale Appendix ascending fifth astra autobiographical auxiliary cadence bass Beethoven beginning Bizet Carmen chord coda composer composer's Concerto Cross-motive D major death depicted descending diachronic transformation draft Eb Major Symphony endstate exposition Finale Finale's Fourth Symphony Furtwängler German homosexual interpretation Iolanta Jewish Jews Juliet Karajan later lovers macro-symphonic form Mahler Manfred Manfred Symphony Manfred's March theme Mengelberg meta-symphonic metaphor minor motive narrative Nazi normative opera orchestral outer movements passion Pathé Pathétique Pathétique's March perfect fifth phony piano Poznansky Queen of Spades Rakhmaninov recapitulation recomposed relationship represent Requiem root position Russian Scherzo second group second movement sequence sexual Shostakovich Sibelius Six Romances Sixth Symphony sketchbook sketches sonata form Song song-cycle structural dominant suicide super-sonata Symphony's Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky's homosexual Tchaikovsky's Last Days Tenth Symphony ternary form third movement tion tique's tonal tonic topos tragic transfiguration Tristan tritonality upper voice Wagner