Musical Meaning for the Few: Instances of Private Reception in the Music of Brahms
The received view of Brahms as a champion of “absolute” music has dominated the scholarly reception of his compositional output for over a century, and with good reason. Except in a few early works, Brahms rarely published his instrumental music with any of the suggestive clues that his contemporari...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2007-04-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5093 |