The organ music of Johannes Brahms / by Barbara Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Organ music.

Brahms, Johannes.

Organ music--History and criticism.

Organ music.

Physical Description:

ix, 184 p. : music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahmes, contextualized against other church and concert organists' repertoire of the time. Precisely because the collection of organ works is not extensive, the pieces--composed periodically throughout Brahms's lifetime--map his path as a composer, pinpointing various stages in his artistic development. The body of the manuscript is devoted to the history and analysis of Brahms's individual organ works and their interpretation, focusing on the importance of his predecessors and contemporaries in the composition and performance of these pieces.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

PART I: BACKGROUND

ONE: The Organ in the Life of Brahms

TWO: Bach, Counterpoint, and Chorales

THREE: Brahms as Revisor

PART II: THE MUSIC

FOUR: The Early Works

FIVE: The Eleven Chorale Preludes

SIX: Interpretation

APPENDIX A: Editions

APPENDIX B: The Organs in Brahms's World

APPENDIX C: Organ Transcriptions of Works by Brahms

Notes

Bibliography

Discography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ), and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0198042485

9780198042488

OCLC:

476245816