Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

ISBN-13: 9781108464765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 293 str.

Nicole Grimes

Opis

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms's music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Recenzje

'a disciplined and imaginative piece of scholarship which thematically draws together a selection of Brahms's elegiac works using an interdisciplinary analytical framework. Grimes investigates the deep relationship between the musical works and their contemporaneous worlds in literature, visual art, and philosophy. This book examines a relatively unknown collection of works within Brahms's catalogue, both from musical/analytical and literary perspectives. The focus and breadth are notable in this regard, and the author's examination of Brahms's own literary proclivities and knowledge are particularly significant.' Society for Musicology in Ireland

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Brahms's ascending circle: Hölderlin and Schicksalslied; 2. The ennoblement of mourning: Nänie and the death of beauty; 3. A disembodied head for mythic justice: Gesang der Parzen; 4. The last great cultural harvest: Nietzsche and the Vier ernste Gesänge; 5. The sense of an ending: music's return to the land of childhood; Epilogue.