Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony

Name: Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony
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ISBN: 9780945193906

ISBN-10: 0945193904

ISBN-13: 9780945193906

Edition: 1997

Authors: Raymond Knapp

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The first three chapters examine the roots of Brahms's obsession with the symphony and consider the difficulties the genre presented to him. Subsequent chapters elaborate an aesthetic justification for Brahms's musical borrowings, detail the ways in which his variational technique is deployed in a

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Publication date: 4/30/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The History of an Obsession: "Neue Bahnen" and Its Legacy



The Symphonic Challenge



The Problem of Orchestration



Allusive Webs, Generic Resonance, and the Synthesis of Traditions



Patterned Variation and Ostinato



The Quest for Unity



On the Significance of Brahms's Symphonies



Pre-Publication Chronologies of the Four Symphonies


Works Cited


Index