Brahms and the German Spirit / / Daniel Beller-McKenna.
The music of Johannes Brahms is deeply colored, Daniel Beller-McKenna shows, by nineteenth-century German nationalism and by Lutheran religion. Focusing on the composer's choral works, the author offers new insight on the cultural grounding for Brahms's music. Music historians have been re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Brahms and the German Spirit
- 2 Religion, Language, and Luther’s Bible
- 3 Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, and the Apocalyptic Paradigm
- 4 The Triumphlied, Op. 55, and the Apocalyptic Moment
- 5 Gebet einer König: National Prayers in the Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op. 109
- 6 Beyond the End
- APPENDIX Longer Musical Examples
- Notes
- Index