Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Part 1 1. “The Wondrous transformation of Thought into Sound”: Some Preliminary reflections on musical meaning in Brahms 3 Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith 2. The learned Self: artifice in Brahms’s late intermezzi 19 Steven Rings Part 2 3. “alte liebe” and the Birds of Spring: text, music, and image in max Klinger’s Brahms Fantasy 53 Yonatan Malin 4. Brahms’s Mädchenlieder and Their Cultural Context 80 Heather Platt 5. ancient tragedy and anachronism: Form as expression in Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen 111 Margaret Notley Part 3 6. Sequence as expressive Culmination in the Chamber music of Brahms 147 Ryan McClelland 7. “Phantasia subitanea”: temporal Caprice in Brahms’s op. 116, nos. 1 and 7 186 Frank Samarotto vi Contents 8. monumentality and Formal Processes in the First movement of Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in d minor, op. 15 217 James Hepokoski 9. The drama of tonal Pairing in Chamber music of Schumann and Brahms 252 Peter H. Smith Selected Bibliography 291 List of Contributors 297 Index of Brahms’s Compositions 299 General Index 301 ...