"""Expressive 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. 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."
By:
Peter H. Smith
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 676g
ISBN: 9780253344830
ISBN 10: 0253344832
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 07 July 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
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
Peter H. Smith is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Notre Dame.
Reviews for Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
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 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 investigate the intersections of structure and expression, and in so doing he deftly explains the ways in which Brahms's Piano Quartet in C minor op. 60 'correlates with the agony of an individual about to commit suicide'. -Journal of Music Theory
