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"This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and worthy contribution on the music of a major composer." -- Patrick McCreless
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music integrates a wide variety of analytical methods into a broader study of theoretical approaches, using a single work by Brahms as a case study. On the basis of his findings, Smith considers how Brahms's approach in this piano quartet informs analyses of similar works by Brahms as well as by Beethoven and Mozart.
Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S. Hatten, editor
"This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and worthy contribution on the music of a major composer." --Patrick McCreless
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | |
| Quintessential Brahms and the Paradox of the C-Minor Piano Quartet: A Representative yet Exceptional Work | p. 3 |
| Analytical Preliminaries: Brahms's Sonata Forms and the Idea of Dimensional Counterpoint | p. 31 |
| A Schoenbergian Perspective: Compositional Economy, Developing Recapitulation, and Large-Scale Form | p. 66 |
| Brahms and Schenker: A Mutual Response to Sonata Form | p. 108 |
| Brahms's Expository Strategies: Two-Part Second Groups, Three-Key Expositions, and Modal Shifts | p. 122 |
| Toward an Expressive Interpretation: Correlations for Suicidal Despair | p. 183 |
| Intertextual Resonances: Tragic Expression, Dimensional Counterpoint, and the Great C-Minor Tradition | p. 234 |
| Notes | p. 285 |
| Bibliography | p. 309 |
| Index of Brahms's Works | p. 319 |
| General Index | p. 321 |
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ISBN: 9780253344830
ISBN-10: 0253344832
Series: Musical Meaning & Interpretation
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 15th March 2005
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.4
x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.671
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