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Rethinking Brahms / edited by Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897--Criticism and interpretation.
- Brahms, Johannes.
- Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897--Appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (585 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of musicologists, performer-scholars, and music theorists, 'Rethinking Brahms' provides new perspectives on Brahms's music, the contexts of his creativity, and the reception of his works.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Rethinking Brahms
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction: Rethinking Brahms
- 1. Brahms in the Schumann Library
- 2. Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts
- 3. Settling for Second Best: Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical Context
- 4. Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps
- 5. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative
- 6. The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert
- 7. Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi: The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection
- 8. Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853: Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered
- 9. Doesn't Play Well with Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano
- 10. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms
- 11. Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms: A Case Study in Romantic Formenlehre
- 12. Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvořák
- 13. Intentional Transgressions: Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms
- 14. Images, Monuments, Constructs: Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance
- 15. Templates of Grief: Brahms's Requiem and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, 1939-1949
- 16. "Aimez-vous Brahms?": The History of a Question
- 17. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination: Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121
- 18. Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms: Symphonie "Nähe fern" and the Future of Nostalgia
- 19. Specters and "Derangements": Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Compositions by Johannes Brahms
- General Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-754175-5
- 0-19-754176-3
- 0-19-754174-7
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