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Author:

Notley, Margaret Anne.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

vi, 245 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Brahms, Johannes,--1833-1897--Criticism and interpretation.
Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-237) and index.

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.

Summary:

"Lateness and Brahms takes up the understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is."--BOOK JACKET.

Series:

AMS studies in music.

ISBN:

9780195305470
0195305477

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65197807

LCCN:

2006008848

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)