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Metrical Dissonance in Selected Piano Pieces by Johannes Brahms, with Implications for Performance

Yang, Yu-Wen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337102281

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2012, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Piano.
Ambiguity in Brahms’s music is often the result of discrepancies between notated and perceived meters. Music theorists have referred to these situations as metrical dissonances. The abundance of metrical dissonance in Brahms’s music confuses the listener’s perception of meter and creates problems for a performer in determining how to shape musical phrases. The purpose of this document is to apply Harald Krebs’s analytical system to discuss metrical dissonances in Brahms’s late piano pieces, including Op. 116, nos. 1, 5, and 7, Op. 117, no. 1, and Op. 118 no. 4. Krebs’s analytical notation will provide a solution to the confusion arising from the many conflicts between notation and perception in these pieces. The role of tonal, motivic, and formal structures in these metrical conflicts will be addressed, and performance implications will be discussed.
Samuel Ng, PhD (Committee Chair)
Michael Chertock, MM (Committee Member)
James Tocco (Committee Member)
89 p.
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Selected Piano Pieces by Johannes Brahms; Metrical Dissonance; Brahms's Op. 116, nos. 1, 5, and 7,; Brahms's Op. 117, no. 1, and Op. 118 no. 4.; ; ;

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  • Yang, Y.-W. (2012). Metrical Dissonance in Selected Piano Pieces by Johannes Brahms, with Implications for Performance [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337102281

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yang, Yu-Wen. Metrical Dissonance in Selected Piano Pieces by Johannes Brahms, with Implications for Performance. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337102281.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yang, Yu-Wen. "Metrical Dissonance in Selected Piano Pieces by Johannes Brahms, with Implications for Performance." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337102281

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