Symphony No. 7 In Full Score

By Gustav Mahler

Among the most popular of Mahler's symphonic works, the 7th Symphony has neither a "program" nor a folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in feeling. The restrained mood and thematic economy of the symphony make it one of the least extravagant of the composer's works; it is also one of the most enjoyable.
Despite the lack of a "program" for the 7th, some critics profess to find that "a good case can be made out for the symphony as a whole having been consciously built round the poetic idea of nocturnal nature, progressing through various shades of darkness" (New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians). Now musicians and music lovers can make their own determination by studying this inexpensive edition of the complete score, reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Jun 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486314686

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SYMPHONY NO. 7

IN FULL SCORE

Gustav Mahler

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

New York

Copyright © 1992 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

This Dover edition, first published in 1992, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin, 1909, as Siebente Sinfonie von Gustav Mahler. Orchester-Partitur. New in the present edition are the list of instruments, the glossary of German terms and the translation of the footnotes.

The publisher is grateful to the library of the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, for the loan of the original score for reproduction.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mahler, Gustav, 1860–1911.

[Symphonies, no. 7]

Symphony no. 7 / Gustav Mahler. — In full score.

1 score.

Reprint. Originally published: Berlin : Bote & Bock, 1909.

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-27339-6

ISBN-10: 0-486-27339-3

1. Symphonies—Scores.

M1001.M21 no. 7 1992

92-759853

CIP  

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CONTENTS

Symphony No. 7 in B Minor / E Minor / C Major (1904–1905)

I.

Langsam—Allegro con fuoco

II.

Serenade (Nachtmusik)

III.

Schattenhaft

IV.

Serenade (Nachtmusik)

Rondo - Finale

INSTRUMENTATION

Piccolo (Picc.)

4 Flutes (Flöten; Fl.)

    (Flute IV = Piccolo II [Picc.])

3 Oboes (Oboen; Ob.)

English Horn (Englisch Horn; Egl. H.)

(Cl.Es)

) (Clarinetten in A, B; Cl.A,