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Expressive forms in Brahms's instrumental music : structure and meaning in his Werther quartet /

Title:
Expressive forms in Brahms's instrumental music : structure and meaning in his Werther quartet /
Author:
Smith, Peter Howard.
Published:
Bloomington : c2005.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Quintessential Brahms and the paradox of the C-minor piano quartet : a representative yet exceptional work -- Analytical preliminaries : Brahms's sonata forms and the idea of dimensional counterpoint -- A Schoenbergian perspective : compositional economy, developing recapitulation, and large-scale form -- Brahms and Schenker : a mutual response to sonata form -- Brahms's expository strategies : two-part second groups, three-key expositions, and modal shifts -- Toward an expressive interpretation : correlations for suicidal despair -- Intertextual resonances : tragic expression, dimensional counterpoint, and the great C-minor tradition.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
MT145.B75 S65 – Available