Lateness and Brahms
Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2006
254 pages
978-0-19-534568-1 (ISBN)
Description
Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is.
In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.
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Margaret Notley, an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas, has published widely on a number of topics. Her article "Late-Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and the Cult of the Classical Adagio" won the 2000 Alfred Einstein Award given by the American Musicological Society.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Lateness and Brahms
- CHAPTER 1 Brahms as Liberal, Bruckner as Other
- CHAPTER 2 Brahms and the Problem of Late Style
- CHAPTER 3 Themes and First Movements: Questions of Lateness and Individualism
- CHAPTER 4 Music Pedagogy, Musicology, and Brahms's Collection of Octaves and Fifths: Historical Decline, Personal Renewal
- CHAPTER 5 Volksconcerte and Concepts of Genre in Brahms's Vienna
- CHAPTER 6 Adagios in Brahms's Late Chamber Music: Genre Aesthetics and Cultural Critique
- EPILOGUE: The Twilight of Liberalism
- APPENDIX: Brahms's Multimovement Works: Dates of Completion and Tempo Designations for the Slow Movements
- Bibliography
- Index
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