Item Detail
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Platt, Heather Anne
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Johannes Brahms : a research and information guide
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Book
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2nd ed.
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Routledge music bibliographies
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New York, N.Y.
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2011
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Routledge
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xxiii, 549 p. ; 24 cm
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English
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9780415994569 (hardback); 041599456X (hardback); 9780203890493 (ebook); 0203890493 (ebook)
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897--Bibliography.
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ML 134 .B8 P52 2011
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Platt, Heather. Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide. 2nd ed. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
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A bio-bibliography of the most significant resources and research tools on the composer Johannes Brahms. This volume is intended to help students who are not experienced with available research on Brahms to find publications that suit their level of understanding and area of interest.
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This bibliography abstracts journal articles, reviews with scholarly contibutions, monographs, collections of essays, dissertations, and scholarly electronic publications, written from 1854 to 2007 in both English and German. Only a monograph’s most recent edition is included. Sources have been drawn from existing Brahms bibliographies (namely Quigley), RILM Abstracts, IIMP, International Index to Music Periodicals, Music Index, Digital Dissertations, JSTOR, the American Brahms Society Newsletter, Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online, WorldCat, the Library of Congress catalog, and the catalog of the Austrian National Library. The author has excluded articles that summarize existing research or provide lesson plans for teachers; concerts; public lectures; notices/abstracts of conferences of conference papers; exhibition catalogs that only list the contents of an exhibit; entries in general-interest dictionaries and encyclopedias; music textbooks.
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The volume begins with a preface describing the state of research on Brahms and the book’s scope and intentions. Chapter 1 contains basic research resources on manuscripts, editions, catalogs, bibliographies, and web sites. Chapter 2 contains primary sources having to do with Brahms’ correspondence with friends, including letters, anthologies and studies of letters, and recollections of friends. Chapter 3 contains biographies, articles on biographical issues, life-and-works monographs, and general assessments on Brahms’ compositional style. Chapters 4-6 contain resources to general studies of the genres of music for which Brahms wrote, as well as studies of specific works of his in those genres. Each of these chapters deals with one genre each (orchestral/chamber works, keyboard music, vocal music, respectively). Chapter 7 contains sources on analytical studies of aspects of Brahms’ music. Chapter 8 contains sources on the influence of Brahms’ music on other that of other composers and vice versa, as well as their reactions to his music. Chapter 9 contains sources on performance issues in Brahms’ music. Chapter 10 contains sources on the critical reception of Brahms’ works and some German reviews from the 19th century on specific pieces.
In all chapters of the bibliography, entries are organized alphabetically by author. Entries include substantial annotations, complete bibliographic citations and, in many cases, a Library of Congress call number and ISBN.
Two indexes follow the bibliography. The first contains names and subjects listed in alphabetical order. The second compositions by Brahms and is organized first by pieces with opus number in numerical order, then by works without opus number, arrangements and performance materials for other composers’ works, lost works, fragments and sketches of works, and spurious works. -
The sources in this bibliography are as recent as 2007, making this bibliography a very current and reliable source. They are written to be companions to Thomas Quigley’s more comprehensive annotated bibliographies on Brahms, helping students at all levels find the resources they need for research.
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BYU Mus Ref
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1072