Brahms studies : analytical and historical perspectives : papers delivered at the International Brahms Conference, Washington, DC 5-8 May 1983 / edited by George S. Bozarth.
| Author/creator | International Brahms Conference (1983 : Washington, D.C.) |
| Other author/creator | Bozarth, George S., editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon, 1990. |
| Description | xvii, 472 pages : tables, music, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
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| Contents | Keynote address. Brahms the ambivalent / Karl Geiringer -- Brahms and musical tradition. Brahms, Wagner, and the problem of historicism in nineteenth-century music / Christoph Wolff -- Brahms, his past, and modes of music theory / David Lewin -- Brahms and early music: evidence from his library and his choral compositions / Virginia Hancock -- The general and the particular in Brahms's later sonata forms / James Webster -- Brahms's slow movements: reinventing the "Closed" forms / Elaine R. Sisman -- Brahms the subversive / Charles Rosen -- Brahms the progressive. Schoenberg's Brahms / Michael Musgrave -- The shifting bar line: metrical displacement in Brahms / Walter Frisch -- Harmonic congruence in Brahms / Edward T. Cone -- Performance practice. Brahms and the mechanisms of motion: the composition of performance / David Epstein -- Brahms as editor. Brahms's edition of twenty Schubert Landler: an essay in criticism / David Brodbeck -- Brahms's editions of Schumann / Linda Correll Roesner -- The publication of Brahms's third symphony: a crisis in dissemination / Robert Pascall -- The role of trial performances for Brahms's orchestral and large choral works: sources and circumstances / Margit L. McCorkle -- Brahms as song composer. Brahms's early songs: poetry versus music / Ludwig Finscher -- Brahms Lieder ohne Wrote: the "Poetic" andantes of the piano sonatas / George S. Bozarth -- Cyclic tendencies in Brahms's song collections / Imogen Fellinger -- Brahms's symphonic music. "Form" and the Tragic Overture: an adjuration / Claudio Spies -- D-light reflecting: the nature of comparison / John Rahn -- Musical language and structure in the third symphony / Robert Bailey -- Thematic structure and formal processes in Brahms's sonata movements / Siegfried Kross. |
| Abstract | Collecting the work of the foremost American, British, and German music scholars, this volume presents studies that discuss important aspects of Brahms's musical life. Subject areas include Brahms and musical tradition, Brahms the progressive, performance practice, Brahms as editor, Brahms as song composer, and Brahms's symphonic music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-462) and index. |
| LCCN | gb 90006422 |
| ISBN | 0193119226 : |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.B8 I67 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |