Brahms''s Elegies - The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms's music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Brahms's ascending circle: Hölderlin and Schicksalslied; 2. The ennoblement of mourning: Nänie and the death of beauty; 3. A disembodied head for mythic justice: Gesang der Parzen; 4. The last great cultural harvest: Nietzsche and the Vier ernste Gesänge; 5. The sense of an ending: music's return to the land of childhood; Epilogue.

About the author

Nicole Grimes is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She serves on the Editorial Board of Music Analysis and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Brahms Society. Previous works include Mendelssohn Perspectives (2012) and Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression (2013).

Summary

Exploring the philosophical dimensions of Brahms's music, this book analyzes his elegiac works and their relationship to German literature. Of interest to musicology, German studies and cultural history scholars, it illuminates how Brahms's music relates to aesthetics and modernity from Hölderlin, Schiller, and Goethe to the Frankfurt School.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Grimes, Nicole (University of California Grimes, Grimes Nicole
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781108474498
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47449-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Music in Context; Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Germany, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Theory of music & musicology, Romanticism, Music reviews & criticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology