Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
- Editor: Smith, Peter H.
For more than a decade Peter Smith has published extraordinarily insightful analyses of Brahms's instrumental music. In Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music, he expands his focus to... — More…
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Contents
- 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
