Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253344832 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 McCrelessExpressive 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. Hatten, editor. "This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. 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.Musical
"For more than a decade Peter Smith has published extraordinarily insightful analyses of Brahms’s instrumental music. 60 'correlateswith the agony of an individual about to commit suicide'." Journal of Music Theory"For its sincere committal to such an important message, brilliant use of dimensional noncongruence to lay bare the formal complexities of the Viennese tradition, and numerous insights into the structure and expression of one of Brahms’s most tragic musical portrayals, Smith’s book should be valued by music scholars and welcomed as a significant contribution to the study of meaning in Brahms’s music." Music Theory Online. In Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music, he expands his focus to inve
Smith is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Notre Dame.. Peter H