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

Other author Platt, Heather Anne, editor.
Other author Smith, Peter Howard, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 305 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMusical meaning and interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation. ^A589150
Contents Part 1. "The wondrous transformation of thought into sound": some preliminary reflections on musical meaning in Brahms / Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith -- The learned self: artifice in Brahms's late intermezzi / Steven Rings -- Part 2. "Alte liebe" and the birds of spring: text, music, and image in Max Klinger's Brahms Fantasy / Yonatan Malin -- Brahms's Madchenlieder and their cultural context / Heather Platt -- Ancient tragedy and anachronism: form as expression in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen / Margaret Notley -- Part 3. Sequence as expressive culmination in the chamber music of Brahms / Ryan McClelland -- "Phantasia subitanea": temporal caprice in Brahms's op. 116, nos. 1 and 7 / Frank Samarotto -- Monumentality and formal processes in the first movement of Brahms's piano concerto no. 1 in D minor, op. 15 / James Hepokoski -- The drama of tonal pairing in chamber music of Schumann and Brahms / Peter H. Smith.
Abstract 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 intertextual re-framing is a new awareness of the meaningfulness of even Brahms's most "absolute" works.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and indexes.
LCCN 2011031951
ISBN9780253357052 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253357055 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253005250 (e-book)
ISBN0253005256 (e-book)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.B8 E77 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold