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Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music : Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet /

The result is an elucidating and original interpretation of the music of a celebrated composer, and a significant addition to studies in music theory."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Peter Howard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.