Research Catalog

Title

Brahms, clarinet quintet / Colin Lawson.

Author

Lawson, Colin (Colin James)

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Description

xii, 118 pages : music, photographs; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge music handbooks

Uniform Title

Cambridge music handbooks.

Subject

• Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 > Quintets, clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello, op. 115, B minor

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The nineteenth-century clarinet and its music. An integrated model: Mozart's Clarinet Quintet. The age of virtuosity. Clarinet chamber music after 1850. The development of the clarinet. Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets -- 2. Brahms and the orchestral clarinet. Brahms's orchestras. The character of the orchestral clarinet. The German tradition of wind writing. Brahms and the clarinet: early works. Mature orchestral writing -- 3. Brahms's chamber music before 1891. Aspects of style. Formal procedures. Chamber music with wind. String chamber music. The String Quintet Op. 111 -- 4. The genesis and reception of the Clarinet Quintet. Brahms and Meiningen. Richard Muhlfeld. The Clarinet Trio Op. 114. Clarinet Quintet reception, 1891-4. Brahms's Clarinet Sonatas Op. 120. Muhlfeld's final decade. The Brahms Quintet after Muhlfeld -- 5. Design and structure. Introduction. Allegro. Adagio. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento. Con moto --
• 6. Performance practice. Introduction: the issues. Changes in musical taste. Muhlfeld's clarinet playing. The string quartet. Tempo flexibility, articulation and nuance. Later interpretations -- 7. The legacy of Brahms's clarinet music. Introduction, clarinet music after Brahms. The influence of Brahms. Max Reger. Robert Fuchs and his contemporaries. The clarinet quintet in England. App. 1. A list of Brahms's chamber music -- App. 2. A review of the first London performance, The Times, 29 March 1892 -- App. 3. The mechanism of Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets.

ISBN

• 0521581931 (hardbound)
• 0521588316 (paperback)

LCCN

97005990

OCLC

• 36461635
• ocm36461635

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries