Das Lied von der Erde in Full Score

By Gustav Mahler

In Das Lied von der Erde, Gustav Mahler fused the two forms that most obsessed him — song and symphony — into a masterpiece that epitomized his musical genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism. It is a work of stunning power, one that musical artists and audiences worldwide have made a repertoire favorite, and it is reprinted here from the original full score published in Vienna by Universal-Edition in 1912.
Based on a cycle of six poems translated from the Chinese by Hans Bethge, Das Lied von der Erde, scored for tenor, alto (or baritone), and orchestra, expresses a dualism of feeling — ecstatic pleasure shadowed by dark foreboding — that characterizes not only Mahler himself but the peculiarly autumnal mood of late Romanticism as well. Throughout, Mahler calls on the orchestra to suggest the exotic atmosphere summoned by the text, and to sustain and supplement the solos with all its resources, both in the accompaniment and the extensive connecting interludes.
This sturdily bound, finely produced full score, containing an English translation of the song text is printed on fine-quality paper. It offers both amateur and professional singers and musicians — along with music lovers who enjoy following a love or recorded performance, score in hand — a lifetime of pleasurable study and intimate enjoyment of one of the most celebrated classics of 20th-century music.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Jun 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486314914

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Das Lied von der Erde

IN FULL SCORE

Das Lied von der Erde

IN FULL SCORE

Gustav Mahler

Dover Publications, Inc., New York

Copyright © 1988 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is a republication of Das Lied von der Erde: Eine Symphonie für eine Tenor- und eine Alt- (oder Bariton-) Stimme und Orchester (nach Hans Bethges Die chinesische Flöte), originally published by Universal-Edition, Vienna, in 1912. A list of instruments in English, a glossary of German musical terms, and a new English translation of the texts have been added.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.

Das Lied von der Erde.

Song cycle.

For alto (or baritone), tenor, and orchestra.

Text is a German translation by Bethge, in part expanded by Mahler, of Chinese poems.

Originally published: Vienna : Universal Edition, 1912.

Includes texts with English translations.

1. Song cycles. 2. Songs (High voice) with orchestra – Scores. 3. Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra – Scores. 4. Songs (Low voice) with orchestra – Scores. I. Title.

M1613.M212L45    1988    87-754746

ISBN 0-486-25657-X

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Contents

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Instruments and Voices

Texts and Translations

Glossary of German Musical Terms in the Score

Das Lied von der Erde

I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (Tenor)

II. Der Einsame im Herbst (Alto or Baritone)

III. Von der Jugend (Tenor)

IV. Von der Schönheit