Lateness and Brahms : music and culture in the twilight of Viennese liberalism / Margaret Notley.

Takes up the problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. This book examines the stylistic and a historical category of 'lateness' as it relates to the nineteenth century Viennese composer. It also looks at Brahms' place in narratives of lateness in both...

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Main Author: Notley, Margaret Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:AMS studies in music.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : lateness and Brahms
  • Brahms as liberal, Bruckner as other
  • Brahms and the problem of late style
  • Themes and first movements : questions of lateness and individualism
  • Music pedagogy, musicology, and Brahms's collection of octaves and fifths : historical decline, personal renewal
  • Volksconcerte and concepts of genre in Brahms's Vienna
  • Adagios in Brahms's late chamber music : genre aesthetics and cultural critique
  • Epilogue : the twilight of liberalism.