Music: An Art and a Language
inspired, but many representing the finest flower of Brahms’s genius; four serious songs for bass voice, and one posthumous work ...
positions,e.g., the Third Symphony, and in his superb mastery of the Variation form which is the basis of some of his most famou ...
hand, Tchaikowsky seemed superficial, sensational. The gist of the matter is that Brahms was a Teuton and wrote with char- acter ...
broad human emotion, should remember that he has done more than any other modern composer to idealize the Waltz; and, if the atm ...
[Footnote 257: For literature on Brahms the following works are recommended: the comprehensiveLifeby Fuller-Maitland; the essay ...
is a motto, often recurring in the work, which (whatever it may mean) is evidently—like the theme of the C minor symphony— some ...
Then follow some stormy measures of dissonant chords and war- ring rhythms until the theme rages itself out, in measure 52. The ...
life is undeniably stern and grim,e.g. [Music] In measure 17 there enters a closing theme, sung by the oboe, of ineffable beauty ...
’cellos. The melodic formation is unusual in that the latter phrase is an inversion of the first,e.g. [Music] [Footnote 259: The ...
ment. Whereas, before, there was nothing but conflict, now all is triumphant joy. This movement is laid out on a vast scale, wit ...
as it awakens the echoes from mountain after mountain on some of the high passes in the Bernese Oberland. This is certainly what ...
bring us, in measure 107, to the brilliant closing theme with its staccato, triplet rhythm. The Exposition ends in E minor, in m ...
Chapter 37 SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE Of Brahms’s three Sonatas for violin and pianoforte, respec- tively, in D minor, A m ...
to a beat in one hand against two in the other. After a repetition by the violin there is a spirited closing theme in measure 75 ...
and need no comment. The main theme at its third appearance is in the subdominant key, with effective rhythmic modifica- tions. ...
Chapter 38 BALLADE IN G MINOR FOR PIANOFORTE (SEE SUPPLEMENT NO. 60) Although the most important factor in Brahms’s pianoforte p ...
sider it a picture of a knight-errant in medieval times setting out on his adventures. Observe the vigorous swing of the open- i ...
the following: the second Intermezzo[270] in B-flat minor of op. 117, perhaps the most beautiful single piece Brahms has written ...
resource of the instrument to glorify the spirit of the text, he is a worthy successor of Schubert, Schumann and Franz. Note how ...
Chapter 39 CHAPTER XVII CÉSAR FRANCK Before an appreciation of the significant works and influence of César Franck can be gained ...
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