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Brahms in Context offers a fresh perspective on the much-admired nineteenth-century German composer. Including thirty-nine chapters on historical, social and cultural contexts, the book brings together internationally renowned experts in music, law, science, art history and other areas, including many figures whose work is appearing in English for the first time. The essays are accessibly written, with short reading lists aimed at music students and educators. The book opens with personal topics including Brahms's Hamburg childhood, his move to Vienna, and his rich social life. It considers professional matters from finance to publishing and copyright; the musicians who shaped and transmitted his works; and the larger musical styles which influenced him. Casting the net wider, other essays embrace politics, religion, literature, philosophy, art, and science. The book closes with chapters on reception, including recordings, historical performance, his compositional legacy, and a reflection on the power of composer myths.
Music --- History and criticism. --- Brahms, Johannes, --- Brahms, Johannes --- Brahms, J. --- Brahms, Joh. --- Brams, I. --- Brams, Iogannes, --- Brams, Ĭokhanes, --- Burāmusu, J., --- Marks, G. W. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, Nänie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste Gesänge reveals the philosophical weight of this music. She considers the German tradition of the poetics of loss that extends from the late-eighteenth-century texts by Hölderlin, Schiller and Goethe set by Brahms, and includes other philosophical and poetic works present in his library, to the mid-twentieth-century aesthetics of Adorno, who was preoccupied as much by Brahms as by their shared literary heritage. Her multifaceted focus on endings - the end of tonality, the end of the nineteenth century, and themes of loss in the music - illuminates our understanding of Brahms and lateness, and the place of Brahms in the fabric of modernist culture.
Vocal music --- Vocal music. --- History and criticism --- Brahms, Johannes, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ernste Gesänge (Brahms, Johannes). --- Gesang der Parzen (Brahms, Johannes). --- Nänie (Brahms, Johannes). --- Schicksalslied (Brahms, Johannes). --- 1800-1899. --- Germany. --- 572 --- Muzieksociologie --- Brahms, Johannes --- Brahms, J. --- Brahms, Joh. --- Brams, I. --- Brams, Iogannes, --- Brams, Ĭokhanes, --- Burāmusu, J., --- Marks, G. W. --- History and criticism. --- Music
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