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

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Peter H. Smith

Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music

Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet

Peter H. Smith

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Indiana University Press
07 July 2005

Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Chamber ensembles

""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.

By: Peter H. Smith
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 676g
ISBN: 9780253344830
ISBN 10: 0253344832
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 07 July 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Quintessential Brahms and the Paradox of the C-Minor Piano Quartet: A Representative yet Exceptional Work Part I 2. Analytical Preliminaries: Brahms's Sonata Forms and the Idea of Dimensional Counterpoint 3. A Schoenbergian Perspective: Compositional Economy, Developing Recapitulation, and Large-Scale Form 4. Brahms and Schenker: A Mutual Response to Sonata Form 5. Brahms's Expository Strategies: Two-Part Second Groups, Three-Key Expositions, and Modal Shifts Part II 6. Toward an Expressive Interpretation: Correlations for Suicidal Despair 7. Intertextual Resonances: Tragic Expression, Dimensional Counterpoint, and the Great C-Minor Tradition Notes Bibliography Index

Peter H. Smith is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Notre Dame.

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

""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