Expressive intersections in Brahms : essays in analysis and meaning / [edited by] Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Platt, Heather Anne.

Smith, Peter Howard.

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation.

Musical meaning and interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897--Criticism and interpretation.

Brahms, Johannes.

Musical analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 other artistic realms such as literature and painting. The result of this intertextua

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1; 1. "The Wondrous Transformation of Thought into Sound": Some Preliminary Reflections on Musical Meaning in Brahms; 2. The Learned Self: Artifice in Brahms's Late Intermezzi; Part 2; 3. "Alte Liebe" and the Birds of Spring: Text, Music, and Image in Max Klinger's Brahms Fantasy; 4. Brahms's Mädchenlieder and Their Cultural Context; 5. Ancient Tragedy and Anachronism: Form as Expression in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen; Part 3; 6. Sequence as Expressive Culmination in the Chamber Music of Brahms

7. "Phantasia subitanea": Temporal Caprice in Brahms's op. 116, nos. 1 and 78. Monumentality and Formal Processes in the First Movement of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op. 15; 9. The Drama of Tonal Pairing in Chamber Music of Schumann and Brahms; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index of Brahms's Compositions; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613626424

9781280596599

1280596597

9780253005250

0253005256

OCLC:

795124310