Performing Brahms : early evidence of performance style - ECU Libraries Catalog

Performing Brahms : early evidence of performance style / edited by Michael Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman.

Other author/creator	Musgrave, Michael, 1942- editor.
Other author/creator	Sherman, Bernard D., editor.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description	xx, 391 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Subject(s)	Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897--Criticism and interpretation --History --19th century. Performance practice (Music)--History --19th century.

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Series	Musical performance and reception Cambridge musical texts and monographs. ^A261190
Contents	How different was Brahms's playing style from our own? / Bernard D. Sherman -- Performing Brahms's music: clues from his letters / Styra Avins -- Joachim's violin playing and the performance of Brahms's string music / Clive Brown -- Metronome marks, timings, and other period evidence regarding tempo in Brahms / Bernard D. Sherman -- Performance issues in A German Requiem / Michael Musgrave -- A German Requiem to words of holy scripture for soloists, choir, and orchestra (organ ad libitum), from Der deutsche Gesangverein / Siegfried Ochs, introduced and translated by Michael Musgrave -- Fanny Davies and Brahms's late chamber music / George S. Bozarth -- Flexible tempo and nuancing in orchestral music: understanding Brahms's view of interpretation in his second piano concerto and fourth symphony / Robert Pascall and Philip Weller -- Brahms in the Meiningen tradition: his symphonies and Haydn variations in the markings by Fritz Steinbach / Edited by Walter Blume. Excerpt: the first symphony, introduced and translated by Walter Frisch -- In search of Brahms's first symphony: Steinbach, the Meiningen tradition, and the recordings of Hermann Abendroth / Walter Frisch -- Early trends in the performance of Brahms's piano music / Michael Musgrave -- Performing Brahms in the style hongrois / Jonathan Bellman -- Brahms's musical world: balancing the evidence / Robert Philip.
Abstract	Although the music of Brahms is central to the lives of classical performers and listeners, few know how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. This study brings most of the available evidence into a single volume, along with commentary by leading Brahms experts. Most importantly, the book contains an unique CD of historic recordings--including an actual performance by Brahms--which provides tangible insight and a greater appreciation of the composer.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-381) and index.
ISBN	0521652731

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