Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion

by Paul Berry

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199982643
• ISBN13: 9780199982646
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"