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Author Notley, Margaret Anne.

Title Lateness and Brahms : music and culture in the twilight of Viennese liberalism / Margaret Notley
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations, music
Series AMS studies in music
AMS studies in music.
Contents Introduction : lateness and Brahms -- Brahms as liberal, Bruckner as other -- Brahms and the problem of late style -- Themes and first movements : questions of lateness and individualism -- Music pedagogy, musicology, and Brahms's collection of octaves and fifths : historical decline, personal renewal -- Volksconcerte and concepts of genre in Brahms's Vienna -- Adagios in Brahms's late chamber music : genre aesthetics and cultural critique -- Epilogue : the twilight of liberalism
Summary Takes up the problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. This book examines the stylistic and a historical category of 'lateness' as it relates to the nineteenth century Viennese composer. It also looks at Brahms' place in narratives of lateness in both music and social history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
Brahms, Johannes.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Intellectual life
Geistesleben
Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Austria -- Vienna
Wien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006008848
ISBN 1429421460
9781429421461
0195305477
9780195305470