Academic
Festival Overture and Tragic Overture
by Johannes Brahms
(Paperback - June 2000)
Conducting
Brahms
by Norman Del Mar
(Paperback - December 1997)
Brahms
and the Challenge of the Symphony
by Raymond Knapp
(Hardcover - April 1997)
Brahms
: A German Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by Michael Musgrave
Book Description: The German Requiem is Brahms' largest work,
written for orchestra, chorus and two soloists. It made Brahms an international
name, and the scope and technique of the composition brought him not only
a new audience but also comparison with Bach and Beethoven. In the past
fifty years it has found new critical support as an original and progressive
work. This detailed study examines its history and controversial reception,
analyzes its textual and musical structure, and discusses performing traditions
from Brahms' time until the present.
(Paperback - November 1996)
Brahms
by Ann Rachlin, et al
Reading level: Ages 4-8
(Paperback)
Brahms:
Clarinet Quintet (Cambridge Music
Handbooks)
by Colin Lawson
(Paperback - February 1998)
The
Cambridge Companion to Brahms (Cambridge
Companions to Music)
by Michael Musgrave (Editor)
(Paperback - July 1999)
Complete
Sonatas and Variations for Solo Piano
by J. Brahms
(Paperback - June 1971)
Complete
Sonatas for Solo Instruments and Piano: 3 Violin Sonatas, Scherzo for Violin
and Piano, 2 Cello Sonatas, 2 Clarinet (Viola Sonatas)
by Johannes Brahms, Hans Gal (Editor)
(Paperback - October 1989)
German
Requiem in Full Score
by Johannes Brahms
Paperback from Dover Pubns
Book Published: 01 November, 1987
The
Music of Brahms
by Michael Musgrave
Book Description Michael Musgrave presents a contemporary view
of Brahms 150 years after his birth, seeing him not simply as the "conservative"
figure so often stressed in the past, but as one who creatively reinterpreted
a wider range of historical elements than any composer of his time. Brahms
absorbed his studies directly into his music making and composition and
in so doing helped to evolve not merely a personal language which was regarded
as progressive and sometimes difficult by a range of contemporaries and
successors, but also helped to establish an ethos of historical reference
which anticipates the twentieth century. The Music of Brahms concentrates
on the music, with Brahms's life discussed briefly in the introduction.
The works are considered in four phases according to genre, with an emphasis
on connection and on the development and elaboration of a unified language.
The list of works includes recent discoveries and a calendar outlines the
pattern of his musical life, including relevant information concerning
performances.
(Paperback - January 1994)
Johannes
Brahms : A Biography
by Jan Swafford
... Brahms embodied and ultimately bridged many seeming contradictions--conservative
and progressive; classical and romantic; respect for the musical past and
a propensity for startling innovation. Brahms would die in 1897, knowing
that romanticism would die with him, and fearing that modernism, which
loomed at century's end, would consign him to oblivion. From disparate
elements that included an impoverished childhood and youth (he earned the
money for his musical lessons by playing piano in the Hamburg brothels),
and virtuoso "training," the young Brahms succeeded in creating an artistic
identity. "The paradox is," states Swafford, "that in his art no composer
ever had a more consistent and audible stylistic signature than Johannes
Brahms.... From early on he knew where he was going.... " Swafford offers
a compelling psychological unraveling of a creative identity crafted from
contradictions to arrive at a Brahms characterized by "...passion constrained
within abstraction, personal anguish dissolved in impersonal form." But
Swafford doesn't idealize his subject, painting a picture--through the
diaries and letters of Brahms's friends--of a testy, aloof, misogynic genius.
Any lover of Brahms--of whatever depth or degree--will be grateful for
the correspondences of Brahms's music with the life. Both history and psychology
are well served. Writing not only with a great knowledge of the era, but
a deep reverence and love for the subject, Swafford's interpretative skills
reflect a contemporary sensibility that brings to life the rich circumstances
that fueled Brahms's music. --Hollis Giamatteo - Amazon.com
Paperback: 752 pages
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679745823; 1 Vintage edition (December
1999) |
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Johannes
Brahms: Life and Letters
by Johannes Brahms, et al
(Hardcover - February 1998)
Johannes
Brahms Complete Shorter Works for Solo Piano
by J. Brahms
Edited by Eusebius Mandyczewski
(Paperback - September 1983)
Johannes
Brahms : Complete Symphonies in Full Score (Vienna Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde
Edition)
by J. Brahms, Hans Gal (Editor)
(Paperback - August 1975)
Johannes
Brahms (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by Mike Venezia
(Paperback - September 1999)
Performing
Brahms : Early Evidence of Performance Style
by Michael Musgrave, Bernard D. Sherman, John Butt, Laurence Dreyfus
Book Description: A great deal of evidence survives about how
Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence
- found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings,
and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars.
This book brings the most important evidence together into one volume.
It also includes discussions by leading Brahms scholars of the many issues
raised by the evidence. The period spanned by the life of Brahms and the
following generation saw a crucial transition in performance style. As
a result, modern performance practices differ significantly from those
of Brahms's time. By exploring the musical styles and habits of Brahms's
era, this book will help musicians and scholars understand Brahms's music
better and bring fresh ideas to present-day performance. The value of the
book is greatly enhanced by the accompanying CD of historic recordings
- including a performance by Brahms himself.
Hardcover from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: October, 2003 |
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Piano
Solo: Sonatas
by Johannes Brahms
(Hardcover - March 1998)
A
Practical Guide for Performing, Teaching, and Singing the Brahms Requiem
by Leonard Van Camp
Paperback from Warner Brothers Publications
Book Published: December, 2002
Symphony
No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Dover Miniature Scores)
by Johannes Brahms
(Paperback - October 1997)
Symphony
No. 4 In E minor, Op. 98 (Norton Critical Scores)
by Kenneth Hull (Editor), Johannes Brahms
(Paperback - January 2000)
Three
Orchestral Works in Full Score
by Johannes Brahms
(Paperback - June 1984)
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