Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: romantic musical discourse, or, a rhetoric of romantic music -- Fragmentation and atemporality -- Fragmentation: aesthetics of nineteenth-century romanticism -- Atemporality in narrative and music -- Structural and rhetorical strategies in music with and without text -- Music with text: two slow movements by Brahms -- Music without text: forms of atemporality -- Brahms's piano sonatas -- Treatment of the medial caesura -- Treatment of the s-space -- Treatment of the development and recapitulation -- Treatment of the slow introduction and coda.
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