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Expressive forms in Brahms's instrumental music : structure and meaning in his Werther quartet /

"Johannes Brahms's dramatic Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 60, famously known as the Werther Quartet, forms the basis for Peter H. Smith's illuminating theoretical study. Throughout the book, Smith synthesizes the often-opposed approaches of Schenker and Schoenberg, discussing the int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Peter Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Musical meaning and interpretation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Quintessential Brahms and the paradox of the C-minor piano quartet : a representative yet exceptional work
  • Analytical preliminaries : Brahms's sonata forms and the idea of dimensional counterpoint
  • A Schoenbergian perspective : compositional economy, developing recapitulation, and large-scale form
  • Brahms and Schenker : a mutual response to sonata form
  • Brahms's expository strategies : two-part second groups, three-key expositions, and modal shifts
  • Toward an expressive interpretation : correlations for suicidal despair
  • Intertextual resonances : tragic expression, dimensional counterpoint, and the great C-minor tradition.