Brahms's Song Collections
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- Author: Inge van Rij, Victoria University of Wellington
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521835589
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Brahms once complained that singers never performed his songs in the groups in which he had published them, which he likened to 'song bouquets'. Over a century later, many singers and musicologists continue to ignore Brahms's wishes and focus on the individual songs rather than the bouquet groups. This is a detailed study of the implications of Brahms's comments. Following an examination of contemporary aesthetic and generic frameworks, the book traces Brahms's Lieder from their conception, to the arrangement into bouquets, to performance and reception, and examines the sometimes contradictory roles played by poet, composer, performer and recipient in creating coherence in song collections. An investigation of the graphic cycles of Max Klinger reveals a startling visual analogue of Brahms's conception of the song bouquet, and a final examination of the evidence of Brahms's aesthetic outlook reveals that his intentions may have been cyclic in more than one sense.
Read more- Will be of interest to performers as well as musicologists
- An original analysis of the performance history and critical study of Brahms's Lieder
- Includes music examples and sixteen illustrations
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"Meister's expertise in the literature for v oice and piano lends her writing a lyrical flavor that will appeal to amateurs and experts alike. She carefully balances theoretical analysis, ideas about repertoire and performance and how audiences responded to various pieces and styles." - Luke O. Gillsepie, Indiana University, The American Music Teacher
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17th Oct 2024 by UName-187600
Some quartets of Brahms were written definitly for Clara Wieck(Schumann). Brahms was madly in love with her and he showed in these quartets op.31, op.64, op.92 and op.112. I want to read more about it.
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521835589
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 183 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Context
Organicism
Lyric cycles
Self-reflexivity, fragments, and Hoffmann's Kater Murr
Textual coherence in the song-cycle canon
Key sequence
Key characteristics and other alternative approaches to tonal sequence
Part II: Conception to publication
Before composing: texts and notebooks
From conception to arrangement: 'Heine cycles'
Ordering for publication
Titles and title pages
Flower imagery
Part III: Arrangement
Plot archetypes: sorrow to comfort
Narrative
Op. 32 as narrative
Op. 57 as narrative
Narrative elements in other bouquets
Self-reflexivity
Alternatives to narrative: juxtaposition and resonance
Tempo, closure, and cyclic patterning
'Wie Melodien'
Part IV: Performance
Performance contexts
Criteria in assembling a recital programme
Gender and dramatic characterisation
Identification between singer and narrator
Tessitura, range, and performance by several singers
Transposition
Performance and coherence in the Ophelia-Lieder
Part V: Reception
Reviews
Responses of Brahms's acquaintances
Identification of composer with narrator
Dedicatory cycles and the composer's voice
The graphic cycles of Max Klinger
Part VI: Cyclic Intent.
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