Brahms Studies articles from January 1 2001

Brahms Studies archives from January 1 2001

PREFACE.
January 1, 2001... Like its predecessors in the series, this third volume of Brahms Studies includes essays covering a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. The collection opens with a documentary study, by Sandra McColl, of the diary kept by...

ABBREVIATIONS.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2001... Brahms Max Kalbeck, Johannes Brahms, 4 vols. in 8, orig. ed. (Berlin, 1908-13); rev. ed. (Berlin, 1915-21; reprint, Tutzing: Schneider, 1976) Briefwechsel Johannes Brahms Briefwechsel, 19 vols. to date, 16 orig. vols., rev. ed....

ONE Max Kalbeck: Excerpts from the Diary of 1897.(documenting the last days of Johannes Brahms)
January 1, 2001... The world at large first learned of the existence of Max Kalbeck's diary of 1897 in the feuilleton of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt of 3 and 4 April 1907, written in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Brahms's death. Here, introducing a...

The Alto Rhapsody: Psychology, Intertextuality, and Brahms's Artistic Development.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... I Almost everyone counts the Alto Rhapsody, op. 53, among Brahms's most moving and successful works. It received considerable attention during the Brahms year, 1983, which witnessed the publication of a fine facsimile edition of the...

Brahms's Variations on a Hungarian Song, op. 21, no. 2: "Betrachte dann die Beethovenschen und, wenn Du willst, meine".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Among all the tools we have to understand Brahms as a variation composer, the most important is the music itself. In this context, his Variations on a Hungarian Song, op. 21, no. 2, has been woefully underexplored--and this despite a...

Utopian Agendas: Variation, Allusion, and Referential Meaning in Brahms's Symphonies.(Johannes Brahms)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Brahms has always seemed the most canonic among composers from the later nineteenth century, the composer whose music has most "belonged," not only to the traditions he aspired to extend, but also to itself, as it consistently projects an...

Brahms and the Shifting Barline: Metric Displacement and Formal Process in the Trios with Wind Instruments.(Johannes Brahms)
January 1, 2001... Recent discussions of the technique called developing variation and its exemplification in Brahms's music often emphasize the role of metric irregularities in the composer's thematic processes. Both Walter Frisch and David Epstein have extended...

Themes of Nostalgia and Critique in Weimar-Era Brahms Reception.(Johannes Brahms)
January 1, 2001... I Despite Brahms's secure place in the repertory, many leading Austro-German music critics and historians of the early 1900s, conservative, moderate, and progressive alike, felt uneasy about his position in music history. During the years...