The Aesthetics of Textural Ambiguity: Brahms and the Changing Piano

In recent years, a number of performance practice scholars writing on Brahms’s piano music have commented on the prominence of low-lying melodic lines, thickly-written accompaniments, and often dense saturation of the lower register. For such writers these textural features constitute proof that Bra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Augustus Arnone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2006-09-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5078