PREFACE.(Brief Article)(Editorial)

Publication: Brahms Studies

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COPYRIGHT 1998 University of Nebraska Press

"Brahms as Liberal," "Brahms the Programmatic," "Desire, Repression & Brahms's First Symphony," "Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony" -- locutions such as these, culled from the titles of recent research on the composer, would have seemed strange indeed to most readers only fifteen years ago. But nowadays the viewpoints implied by such titles -- hermeneutic, contextual, sexual, sociological, political -- are taken for granted: the Brahms who died one hundred years ago is alive and well in the New Musicology. And not only there: Brahms's complex personality continues to fascinate biographers (at least four new biographies in English have appeared in the past decade, and more are scheduled to come), and his richly nuanced music continues to draw the attention of music theorists and analysts.

Taken as a whole, the eight studies that follow show something of all these...

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