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Author Berry, Paul, 1977- author.

Title Brahms among friends : listening, performance, and the rhetoric of allusion / Paul Berry
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustration, music
Series AMS studies in Music
AMS studies in music.
Contents Occasional Lullabies. Old melodies, new identities ; Lessons in politics and innuendo -- Themes and Variations. Emulation as empathy ; Consequences of criticism -- Clara at the Keyboard. Family resemblances ; Shared nostalgia ; Grief and transformation -- Rhetorics of Closure. Forests of the heart ; Counterpoint and catharsis ; Concealment as self-restraint
Summary "Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar work was drawn into the fabric of a new composition. For the specific listeners whose habits of mind and musicianship he knew best, allusive borrowings could become rhetorically charged gestures, persuasively revising the meanings his music conveyed and the interpretive strategies it invited. Primary documents, original manuscripts, music-analytic comparison, and kinesthetic parameters experienced in the act of performance all work in tandem to support ten case studies in the interplay between Brahms's small-scale works and the women and men who encountered them before publication. Central characters include violinist Joseph Joachim, singers Amalie Joachim, Julius Stockhausen, and Agathe von Siebold, composers Heinrich and Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and pianists Emma Engelmann and Clara Schumann. For these musicians and for the composer himself, Brahms's allusive music served a broad variety of emotional needs and interpersonal ends. Yet across diverse repertoire and interdisciplinary correlates ranging from ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case study furthers a single, underlying aim: to reconstruct the mutually dependent perspectives of historically situated agents and restore forgotten features of their communicative landscapes as bases for both musical and historical scrutiny."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-371) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship online, viewed September 22, 2020)
Subject Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 fast
Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 gnd
Subject Music appreciation.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music appreciation
Anspielung
Freundeskreis
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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