Overview

Contributors to this exciting new volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms’s music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based approaches of Robert Hatten, and address many of the most important genres in which Brahms composed. The essays reveal the expressive power of a work through the comparison of specific passages in one piece to similar works and through its relationship to other artistic realms such as literature and painting. The result of this intertextual re-framing is a new awareness of the meaningfulness of even Brahms’s most “absolute” works.

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Author:   Heather Platt ,  Peter H. Smith
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780253357052

ISBN 10:   0253357055
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   18 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Ackowledgements Part I 1. ""The Wondrous Transformation of Thought into Sound"": Some Preliminary Reflections on Musical Meaning in Brahms, Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith 2. The Learned Self: Artifice in Brahms's Late Intermezzi, Steven Rings Part II 3. ""Alte Liebe"" and the Birds of Spring: Text, Music, and Image in Max Klinger's Brahms Fantasy, Yonatan Malin 4. Brahms's Maidens in their Cultural Context, Heather Platt 5. Ancient Tragedy and Anachronism: Form as Expression in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen, Margaret Notley Part III 6. Sequence as Culmination in the Chamber Music of Brahms, Ryan McClelland 7. 'Phantasia Subitanea': Temporal Caprice in Brahms's Op. 116, nos. 1 and 7, Frank Samarotto 8. Monumentality and Formal Processes in the First Movement of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, op. 15, James Hepokoski 9. The Drama of Tonal Pairing in Chamber Music of Schumann and Brahms, Peter H. Smith Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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<p> In the work of these authors we encounter the productive intersection ofthe best analytical tools that contemporary music theory has to offer--Schenkeriananalysis, sonata theory, semiotics, recent theories of rhythm and meter, andneo-Riemannian theory--and cultural criticism of the highest order. These scholarsare musically sensitive and culturally savvy, and what they have to offer, both inbroad strokes and in the nuance of the tiniest detail, is not to be missed. --Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music, Yale University--Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music, Yale University

<p> In the work of these authors we encounter the productive intersection of the best analytical tools that contemporary music theory has to offer--Schenkerian analysis, sonata theory, semiotics, recent theories of rhythm and meter, and neo-Riemannian theory--and cultural criticism of the highest order. These scholars are musically sensitive and culturally savvy, and what they have to offer, both in broad strokes and in the nuance of the tiniest detail, is not to be missed. --Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music, Yale University--Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music, Yale University

Author Information

Peter H. Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame and author of Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music (IUP, 2005). Heather Platt is Professor of Music History at Ball State University and author of Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide (2nd edition, 2011).

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