Brahms''s Violin Sonatas - Style, Structure, Performance

Brahms's Violin Sonatas explores key passages of the composer's sonata scores and reveals, in clear and accessible language, the historical and musical nuances behind their composition.

About the author

Joel Lester is Professor Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and The City College of New York. A scholar, violinist, and administrator, he was also Dean of Mannes College of Music from 1996 until 2011. He is the author of Bach's Solo Works for Solo Violin (OUP, 1999), Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century, and Analytic Approaches to 20th-Century Music.

Summary

Brahms's Violin Sonatas explores key passages of the composer's sonata scores and reveals, in clear and accessible language, the historical and musical nuances behind their composition.

Additional text

This volume is about the sheer sound of Brahms's music. It's written by a consummate musician reveling in the beauty of every detail and marveling at how each gesture influences performance and analytical decisions.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Lester, Joel (Professor Emeritus Lester, Lester Joel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780190087036
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008703-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Strings, Theory of music & musicology, Romanticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, String instruments