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Brahms and the Shaping of Time brings together essays by leading music scholars, each of which analyzes the music of Brahms with a particular focus on the music's temporality. The volume's nine chapters are grouped thematically into an aksak rhythm of 2+2+2+3: three topical pairs of essays precede a trio of essays sharing a more covert affiliation. The first pair examines aspects of rhythm and meter in Brahms's lieder. The second pair ofessays in this book pick up the mantle from William Rothstein's landmark text Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music. Rothstein's study focused on the music of other composers, but suggested how a future study might explore the musicof Brahms; these essays contribute to such a study while also pivoting the book's focus from vocal to instrumental music. Each of the chapters of the third pair cross examine and expand our understanding of the hemiola. Finally,the concluding trio of essays continues the focus on the analysis of temporal aspects of individual works, promoting ways of hearing that encourage the reader to breach the confines of the score's metric notation. Together, the essays in this volume combine fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time. CONTRIBUTORS: Eytan Agmon, Richard Cohn, Harald Krebs, Ryan McClelland, Jan Miyake, Scott Murphy, Samuel Ng, Heather Platt, Frank Samarotto Scott Murphy is associate professor of music theory at the University of Kansas.
List of contents
Foreword: Brahms, Analysis, and Time
Expressive Declamation in the Songs of Johannes Brahms
Temporal Disruptions and Shifting Levels of Discourse in Brahms's Lieder
Phrase Rhythm and the Expression of Longing in Brahms's "Gestillte Sehnsucht," Op. 91, No. 1
On the Oddness of Brahms's Five-Measure Phrases
Hemiola as Agent of Metric Resolution in the Music of Brahms
Brahms at Twenty: Hemiolic Varietals and Metric Malleability in an Early Sonata
Containment and Wave: Temporal Experiment in Brahms's Opus 2
Rhythmic Displacement in the Fugue of Brahms's Handel Variations: The Refashioning of a Traditional Device
Durational Enharmonicism and the Opening of Brahms's "Double Concerto"
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Scott Murphy
