Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning

Contributors to this exciting new volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms's music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based approaches of Robert Hatten, and address many of the most important genres in which Brahms composed. The essays reveal the expressive power of a work through the comparison of specific passages in one piece to similar works and through other artistic realms such as literature and painting. The result of this intertextual re-framing is a new awareness of the meaningfulness of even Brahms's most "absolute" works.

• | Author: Heather Platt
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 18, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0253357055
• | ISBN-13: 9780253357052