Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music

Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music
Author: Jacquelyn Sholes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253033160

Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.

The Piano Trio

The Piano Trio
Author: Basil Smallman
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Over the centuries, the piano trio has gained a repertoire of exceptional size and richness; works written for this genre include some of the greatest of all chamber works. The first study devoted solely to the piano trio, this book reviews the development of the trio in different countries within the context of general music history, and shows how it has reflected changes in style and technique from Mozart and Haydn to the avant-garde composers of today. Smallman focuses on the principal works in the trio repertoire, and trovides clear analytical descriptions supplemented by musical examples.

Organized Time

Organized Time
Author: Jason Yust
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190696508

Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason Yust demonstrates that tonal music exhibits similar hierarchical organization in each of these dimensions. Yust develops a network model for temporal structure with an application of mathematical graph theory, which leads ultimately to musical applications of a multi-dimensional polytope called the associahedron. A wealth of analytical examples includes not only the familiar tonal canon-J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schumann--but also lesser known masters of the musical Enlightenment such as C.P.E. and J.C. Bach, Boccherini, and Johann Gottlieb Graun. Yust's approach has wide-ranging ramifications across music theory, enabling new approaches to musical closure, hypermeter, formal function, syncopation, and rhythmic dissonance, as well as historical observations about the development of sonata form and the innovations of Haydn and Beethoven. Making a forceful argument for the independence of musical modalities and for a multivalent approach to music analysis, Organized Time establishes the aesthetic importance of structural disjunction, the conflict of structure in different modalities, in numerous analytical contexts.

Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1

Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1999-08-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457487682

Expertly arranged Piano Trio by Ludwig van Beethoven from the Kalmus Edition series. This Trio is from the Classical and Romantic eras.

Beethoven: The Music and the Life

Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Author: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2005-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393326381

Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.