Fragmenting Monumentality: Discontinuity and Incompleteness in Mahler'S 'Der Abschied'

Dan Deutsch

doi:10.1093/ml/gcab021

Fragmenting Monumentality: Discontinuity and Incompleteness in Mahler'S 'Der Abschied'

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In this article I explore the confluence of Gustav Mahler's affiliation with a Jewish minority and his approach to musical form and expression.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-558
Number of pages	52
Journal	Music and Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcab021
State	Published - 1 Aug 2021
Externally published	Yes

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©lix Guattari's theory of Minor literature with current theories of musical form and analyse selected excerpts from 'Der Abschied', the Finale of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (1909). While 'Der Abschied' aspires towards monumental expression, it rejects its own realization as a musical monument through musical and textual ambiguities. By means of musical analysis I illustrate how discontinuous and fragmented motion in the musical realm undermines the materialization of apotheotic culminations and negates the interpretative framework of monumentality. Against that background, I then compare Mahler's formal approach to Kafka's poetics-the prototype of 'Minor literature'-and discuss how their 'Minor works' concurrently appropriate and subvert the Romantic concept of monumentality and related constructs.

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