Paul Berry

Brahms Among Friends

Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion

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Produktbeschreibung

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in intimate genres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199982646
• ISBN-10: 0199982643
• Artikelnr.: 39558857

Autorenporträt

Paul Berry is Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Music History at the Yale School of Music. A historian of chamber music and song in 19th-century Germany and Austria, he received his BA and Ph.D. from Yale University and has served on the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music. He is also active as a tenor, specializing in early music, German Lieder, and new music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Historiographies of Allusion
Part I: Occasional Lullabies
Chapter 1: Old Melodies, New Identities
Chapter 2: Lessons in Politics and Innuendo
Part II: Themes and Variations
Chapter 3: Emulation as Empathy
Chapter 4: Consequences of Criticism
Part III: Clara at the Keyboard
Chapter 5: Family Resemblances
Chapter 6: Shared Nostalgia
Chapter 7: Grief and Transformation
Part IV: Rhetorics of Closure
Chapter 8: Forests of the Heart
Chapter 9: Counterpoint and Catharsis
Chapter 10: Concealment as Self-Restraint
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