Johannes Brahms

The intention of this treatise is to trace the original source for Johannes Brahms' (1833–1897) lieder from the poetry of the fourteenth century poet Mohammad Shams od-Din Hafez (ca. 1320–ca. 1390) through the free renderings of Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800–1875), and to provide…

This dissertation provides an interpretive guide to Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Händel, Op. 24, written in 1861 by Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), in orchestral terms, using as basis the orchestral transcription by Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986), published as his Op. 47 in 1…

For centuries, composers have used their music as an expressive tool, imbuing it with publicly accessible meaning that often reflects the time and place in which the composer lived. Throughout the nineteenth century, the view of music as a means of expression, specifically self-…

This thesis outlines the development of harmonic dualism and traces its evolution into inverse harmony. The first section of this thesis provides a historical overview of harmonic dualism through the writings of several theorists over a time period of nearly 500 years. Dualism a…