Brahms Selected Works
Title | Brahms Selected Works PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Brahms |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2005-05-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1457443155 |
Compiled primarily for intermediate students, this collection contains an appealing selection of 15 works by Brahms. Included is an intriguing history of the composer's life, education and gift as a composer. In addition to a discussion on Brahms' style of composition, performance suggestions are included. Editorial markings have been added for pedaling and fingering.
The Shorter Piano Pieces
Title | The Shorter Piano Pieces PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Brahms |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005-05-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457444500 |
During the latter part of his life, Brahms wrote only sets of relatively short pieces. With their formal and stylistic perfection, they are among the most valuable of the late-Romantic additions to piano repertoire. Included in this edition are 30 pieces by Brahms, preceded by a helpful introduction which contains definitions of the ballade, rhapsody, capriccio and intermezzo.
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Title | Brahms: Symphony No. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | David Lee Brodbeck |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1997-01-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521479592 |
A 1997 examination of the genesis, background and extra-compositional allusions of this controversial work.
The Songs of Johannes Brahms
Title | The Songs of Johannes Brahms PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Sams |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780300079623 |
"Essential to the composer's method of song-writing was a harmony between musical form and poetic text. Sams takes us right to the heart of that creative method and helps to explain how and why a particular part of the text matches a particular piece of music. He includes a list of the motifs employed by Brahms to help show how the mind of the composer worked when seeking apposite music for the imagery of the poem."--BOOK JACKET.
The Brahms-Keller Correspondence
Title | The Brahms-Keller Correspondence PDF eBook |
Author | George S. Bozarth |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 700 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780803212381 |
For two decades, beginning in the early 1870s, Robert Keller, music editor for N. Simrock Verlag in Berlin, worked with diligence and devotion to usher into print most of Johannes Brahms's major compositions, including all four of his symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the Double Concerto, the Second Piano Concerto, and numerous chamber, choral, and vocal works. This volume collects for the first time the complete extant correspondence between Brahms and Keller, as preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. To read their correspondence is to witness a relationship of mutual respect and increasing friendship and to gain an appreciation for the meticulous labor that went into the publication of Brahms's masterpieces. Keller’s admiration for the composer's genius was answered by Brahms's affection for Keller’s diligence and musical expertise. The vicissitudes of the publication process from composer’s manuscript to printed score are documented in fascinating detail. This edition includes a transcription of the letters in the original German.
The Music of Brahms
Title | The Music of Brahms PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Musgrave |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198164012 |
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.
Brahms, 23 Selected Piano Works
Title | Brahms, 23 Selected Piano Works PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Brahms |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 111 |
Release | 2005-06-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1457425076 |
Internationally renowned concert pianist Joseph Banowetz presents this definitive collection of original masterworks by Johannes Brahms, featuring a comprehensive preface, composer biography, vintage photographs, and detailed performance notes on the solos. This anthology spans a wide spectrum of Brahms's most-loved piano works that have remained popular over time. Titles: * Scherzo, Op. 4 * Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1 * Waltzes, Op. 39, Nos. 1 (B major), 2 (E major), 3 (G-sharp minor), 5 (E major), 8 (B-flat major), 9 (D minor), and 15 (A-flat major) * Klavierstí_cke, Op. 76, Nos. 2 (Capriccio, B minor), 4 (Intermezzo, B-flat major), and 7 (Intermezzo, A minor) * Fantasien, Op. 116, Nos. 2 (Intermezzo, A minor), 4 (Intermezzo, E major), and 6 (Intemezzo, E major) * Three Intermezzos, Op. 117, No. 1 (Intermezzo, E-flat major) * Klavierstí_cke, Op. 118, No. 2 (Intermezzo, A major) * Klavierstí_cke, Op. 119, No. 3 (Intermezzo, C major) * Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 2 (D minor) * Sarabandes, WoO 5 posth., Nos. 1 (A minor), and 2 (B minor) * and Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79, Nos. 1 (B minor), and 2 (G minor)