Contributors to this exciting new volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms's music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based app…
Contributors to this exciting new volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms's music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based app…
"Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that--contrary to recent consensus--it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life"
Despite its entirely biblical text, Brahms's long-beloved A German Requiem is now widely considered a work in which the composer espoused a theologically universal view. R. Allen Lott's comprehensive reconsideration of the work's various contexts challenges that prevailing inter…
Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that-contrary to recent consensus-it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life. Despite its entirely biblical text, Brahms's long-beloved A German Requiem is now…
Music theorist Eric Wen presents in-depth analyses of seven masterworks from the common-practice period of Western art music. Wen employs the analytic approach developed by Heinrich Schenker, a method that uses musical notation to clarify and illuminate a work's structural hiera…
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
