Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music - 9780253344830

Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental MusicStructure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet\nAuthor(s): Peter H. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253344830, 978-0253344830\nSynopsis\n\""This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and worthy contribution on the music of a major composer.\"" Patrick McCreless\n\n Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music integrates a wide variety of analytical methods into a broader study of theoretical approaches, using a single work by Brahms as a case study. On the basis of his findings, Smith considers how Brahr