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Brahms Among Friends - Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion (Hardcover)
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Brahms Among Friends - Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion (Hardcover)
Series: AMS Studies in Music
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Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance,
and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores
how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music
in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature.
Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that
bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive
musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar work was
drawn into the fabric of a new composition. For the specific
listeners whose habits of mind and musicianship he knew best,
allusive borrowings could become rhetorically charged gestures,
persuasively revising the meanings his music conveyed and the
interpretive strategies it invited. Primary documents, original
manuscripts, music-analytic comparison, and kinesthetic parameters
experienced in the act of performance all work in tandem to support
ten case studies in the interplay between Brahms's small-scale
works and the women and men who encountered them before
publication. Central characters include violinist Joseph Joachim,
singers Amalie Joachim, Julius Stockhausen, and Agathe von Siebold,
composers Heinrich and Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and pianists
Emma Engelmann and Clara Schumann. For these musicians and for the
composer himself, Brahms's allusive music served a broad variety of
emotional needs and interpersonal ends. Yet across diverse
repertoire and interdisciplinary correlates ranging from
ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case study furthers a single,
underlying aim: Yet across diverse repertoire and interdisciplinary
correlates ranging from ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case
study furthers a single, underlying aim: to reconstruct the
mutually dependent perspectives of historically situated agents and
restore forgotten features of their communicative landscapes as
bases for both musical and historical scrutiny.
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