Brahms's Elegies : the poetics of loss in nineteenth-century German culture / Nicole Grimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimes, Nicole, author.

Series:

Music in context.

Music in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Brahms, Johannes.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Schicksalslied.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Nänie.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Gesang der Parzen.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Ernste Gesänge.

Vocal music--Germany--19th century--History and criticism.

Vocal music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, Nänie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste Gesänge reveals the philosophical weight of this music. She considers the German tradition of the poetics of loss that extends from the late-eighteenth-century texts by Hölderlin, Schiller and Goethe set by Brahms, and includes other philosophical and poetic works present in his library, to the mid-twentieth-century aesthetics of Adorno, who was preoccupied as much by Brahms as by their shared literary heritage. Her multifaceted focus on endings - the end of tonality, the end of the nineteenth century, and themes of loss in the music - illuminates our understanding of Brahms and lateness, and the place of Brahms in the fabric of modernist culture.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Feb 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-66113-0

1-108-58975-8

1-108-68976-0