Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning

Contributors

Contributors James Hepokoski is professor of music history at Yale University. He has written numerous books, including Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; and (with William E. Caplin and James Webster) Musical Form, Form & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections. His work coauthored with Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata, was awarded the Wallace Berry Prize from the Society for Music Theory in 2008. His articles on topics in nineteenth-century music and sonata form have appeared in 19th-Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the edited volume Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of Analysis and Performance. Yonatan Malin is associate professor of music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the Lied. His articles concerning music-text relations and theories of rhythm and meter have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum and Music Analysis. Ryan McClelland is associate professor of music theory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Brahms and the Scherzo: Studies in Musical Narrative. His articles concerning Brahms, Schenkerian analysis, rhythmicmetric theory, and performance studies have appeared in Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, Intégral, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, and Indiana Theory Review. Margaret Notley is professor of music at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Journal of Musicology, Brahms Studies, and a number of anthologies. For the article “Late-Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and the Cult of the Classical Adagio,” she received the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award in 2000. Most of her recent publications and current projects are on twentieth-century topics, with particular emphasis on Alban Berg and twentieth-century opera in general. 298 Contributors Heather Platt is professor of music history at Ball State University. She is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide. Her articles concerning Brahms’s lieder have appeared in Brahms Studies, Journal of Musicology, The Cambridge Companion to the Lied, and Intégral. She has also published review essays concerning theoretical approaches to Brahms’s music in 19th-Century Music Review and the Journal of Music Theory. Steven Rings is assistant professor of music and the humanities at the University of Chicago. His monograph Tonality and Transformation includes analyses of a number of compositions by Brahms. His diverse research interests include the exploration of intersections between theoretical and cultural questions in music from Bach to Bob Dylan. His articles have appeared in 19th-Century Music, Journal of Music Theory, and Journal of Schenkerian Studies. Frank Samarotto is associate professor of music theory at Indiana University. He has published articles on the music of Brahms in Intégral, Theory and Practice, and A Composition as a Problem III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Theory, Tallinn, March 9–10, 2001. Other articles and reviews exploring issues in Schenkerian theory and analysis, some of which also reference Brahms, have appeared in Music Theory Online, Schenker Studies 2, Theory and Practice, Beethoven Forum, Music Theory Spectrum, and a festschrift for Carl Schachter. Peter H. Smith is professor of music and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet. He has published articles on the instrumental music of Brahms and related composers, Schenkerian approaches to analysis, and theories of musical form in Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Intégral, Theory and Practice, Brahms Studies, and the essay collection Rethinking Schumann. ...