| Description |
xv, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Music in context
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Music in context.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Brahms's ascending circle : Hölderlin and Schicksalslied -- The ennoblement of mounrning : Nänie and the death of beauty -- A disembodied head for mythic justice : Gesang der Parzen -- The last great cultural harvest : Nietzsche and the Vier ernste Gesänge -- The sense of an ending : Music's return to the land of childhood -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Translation of Theodor Adorno, "Brahms aktuell" (1934). |
| Summary |
Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, Nanie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste Gesange reveals the philosophical weight of this music. She considers the German tradition of the poetics of loss that extends from the late-eighteenth-century texts by Hoelderlin, Schiller and Goethe set by Brahms, and includes other philosophical and poetic works present in his library, to the mid-twentieth-century aesthetics of Adorno, who was preoccupied as much by Brahms as by their shared literary heritage. Her multifaceted focus on endings - the end of tonality, the end of the nineteenth century, and themes of loss in the music - illuminates our understanding of Brahms and lateness, and the place of Brahms in the fabric of modernist culture. -- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Schicksalslied.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Nänie.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Gesang der Parzen.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Ernste Gesänge.
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Vocal music -- Germany -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Vocal music. |
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Germany. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Vocal music.
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| Subject |
Ernste Gesänge (Brahms, Johannes) |
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Gesang der Parzen (Brahms, Johannes) |
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Nänie (Brahms, Johannes) |
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Schicksalslied (Brahms, Johannes) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969, author.
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| ISBN |
9781108474498 hardcover |
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1108474497 hardcover |
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