Brahms and the Shaping of Time by Scott Murphy

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WINNER: 2019 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory Combines 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.

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Brahms and the Shaping of Time by Scott Murphy

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 reveals numerous ways in which Brahms manipulates such basic elements as rhythm and phrase structure in pieces ranging from the Third Piano Sonata and the Double Concerto to a number of his most important and beloved songs. The first two essays examine aspects of rhythm and meter in Brahms's lieder, recognizing his meaningful deviations from temporal norms. The second two 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 music of 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-examines and expands our understanding of the hemiola. The concluding trio of essays promotes, through further analysis of individual works, ways of hearing that encourage the reader to breach the confines of the score's metric notation. Together, the essays in this volume offer fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer and incorporate significant new 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 professorof music theory at the University of Kansas.
WINNER of the 2019 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory **
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ISBN 13 9781580465977
ISBN 10 1580465978
Title Brahms and the Shaping of Time
Author Scott Murphy
Series Eastman Studies In Music
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University of Rochester Press
Year published 2018-06-15
Number of pages 308
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.