Rethinking Brahms /
"Do we need another book on Brahms? After all, among those figures with an established place in the Western musical canon, Brahms seems particularly notable for the constant outpouring of discourse and discussion that his music has occasioned over the past 170 years. We can observe this in the...
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New York, NY :
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[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips
- Part 1. Intellectual Contexts. Brahms in the Schumann Library / Reuben Phillips ; Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts / Styra Avins ; Settling for Second Best : Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical Context / David Brodbeck ; Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps / Jane Hines
- Part 2. Rehearing Brahms. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative / Janet Schmalfeldt ; The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert / Loretta Terrigno ; Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi : The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection / Tekla Babyak ; Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853 : Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered / Katharina Uhde ; Doesn't Play Well With Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano / Anna Scott
- Part 3. Analytical Perspectives. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms / Julian Horton ; Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms : A Case-Study in Romantic Formenlehre / Benedict Taylor ; Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvořák / Peter H. Smith ; Intentional Transgressions : Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms / Frank Samarotto
- Part 4. Monuments and Memorialization. Images, Monuments, Constructs : Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance / Wolfgang Sandberger / Templates for Grief : Brahms's Requiem after the Dresden Firebombing / Martha Sprigge ; 'Aimez-vous Brahms?' The History of a Question / Daniel Beller-McKenna
- Part Five. Afterlives of Brahms. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination : Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121 / Frankie Perry ; Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms : Symphonie 'Nähe fern' and the Future of Nostalgia / Nicole Grimes ; Spectres and 'Derangements' : Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive / Edward Venn
- Introduction / Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips
- Part 1. Intellectual Contexts. Brahms in the Schumann Library / Reuben Phillips ; Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts / Styra Avins ; Settling for Second Best : Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical Context / David Brodbeck ; Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps / Jane Hines
- Part 2. Rehearing Brahms. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative / Janet Schmalfeldt ; The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert / Loretta Terrigno ; Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi : The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection / Tekla Babyak ; Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853 : Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered / Katharina Uhde ; Doesn't Play Well With Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano / Anna Scott
- Part 3. Analytical Perspectives. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms / Julian Horton ; Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms : A Case-Study in Romantic Formenlehre / Benedict Taylor ; Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvořák / Peter H. Smith ; Intentional Transgressions : Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms / Frank Samarotto
- Part 4. Monuments and Memorialization. Images, Monuments, Constructs : Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance / Wolfgang Sandberger / Templates for Grief : Brahms's Requiem after the Dresden Firebombing / Martha Sprigge ; 'Aimez-vous Brahms?' The History of a Question / Daniel Beller-McKenna
- Part Five. Afterlives of Brahms. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination : Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121 / Frankie Perry ; Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms : Symphonie 'Nähe fern' and the Future of Nostalgia / Nicole Grimes ; Spectres and 'Derangements' : Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive / Edward Venn
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Intellectual Contexts
- 1 Brahms in the Schumann Library / Reuben Phillips
- 2. Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts / Styra Avins
- 3. Settling for Second Best: Brahms's Mannerchor-Lieder in Historical Context / David Brodbeck
- 4. Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps / Jane Hines
- pt. II Rehearing Brahms
- 5. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative / Janet Schmalfeldt
- 6. The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert / Loretta Terrigno
- 7. Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi: The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection / Tekla Babyak
- 8. Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853: Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered / Katharina Uhde
- 9. Doesn't Play Well with Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano / Anna Scott
- pt. III Analytical Perspectives
- 10. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms / Julian Horton
- 11. Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms: A Case Study in Romantic Formenlehre / Benedict Taylor
- 12. Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvorak / Peter H. Smith
- 13. Intentional Transgressions: Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms / Frank Samarotto
- pt. IV Monuments and Memorialization
- 14. Images, Monuments, Constructs: Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance / Wolfgang Sandberger
- 15. Templates of Grief: Brahms's Requiem and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, 1939--1949 / Martha Sprigge
- 16. "Aimez-vous Brahms?": The History of a Question / Daniel Beller-Mckenna
- pt. V Afterlives of Brahms
- 17. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination: Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121 / Frankie Perry
- 18. Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms: Symphonie "Nahe fern" and the Future of Nostalgia / Nicole Grimes
- 19. Specters and "Derangements": Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive / Edward Venn.