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Expressive intersections in Brahms : essays in analysis and meaning

By Johannes , Brahms , Johannes; Platt , Heather Anne; Smith , Peter Howard; Brahms

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0253357055, 978-0-253-35705-2, 978-0-253-00525-0, 0253005256
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7380113 bytes)
Series
Musical meaning and interpretation
Pages
316\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation. BIOG-- 1833-1897.BrahmsJohannes

Description

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.

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