Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning

Through its unique combination of historical narrative, expressive content, and technical analytical approaches, the essays in Expressive Intersections in Brahms will have a profound impact on the current scholarly discourse surrounding Brahms analysis. Because the analyses are so engaged with expressivity, performers too, will likely find many of them enlightening and perhaps critical in helping to hone their interpretations.

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This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today.

― Nineteenth-Century Music Review

In the work of these authors we encounter the productive intersection of the best analytical tools that contemporary music theory has to offer―Schenkerian analysis, sonata theory, semiotics, recent theories of rhythm and meter, and neo-Riemannian theory―and cultural criticism of the highest order. These scholars are musically sensitive and culturally savvy, and what they have to offer, both in broad strokes and in the nuance of the tiniest detail, is not to be missed.

— Patrick McCreless