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The Integration Of The Style Hongrois Into Brahms’S Musical Language In His Chamber Works, Raymond D. Truong Feb 2021

The Integration Of The Style Hongrois Into Brahms’S Musical Language In His Chamber Works, Raymond D. Truong

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The style hongrois is a musical language that Western European composers used to evoke the style of the Hungarian music performed by Romani musicians. This monograph explores the use of the style hongrois in the chamber works of Johannes Brahms. He uses this style often, to the point where it is integrated into his musical language. To understand where this language came from, this monograph provides a historical context of Hungary (the country of origin), the Roma who resided there and migrated westwards, and their musicians.

The second part of this monograph explores the integration of the style hongrois into …


Salvaging The Style Of Frei Aber Einsam In The Music Of Brahms: Proposing A Historically Informed Performance Practice For The Three Sonatas For Violin And Piano Of Johannes Brahms, Opp. 78, 100, And 108, Phillip Alexander Ducreay Jan 2018

Salvaging The Style Of Frei Aber Einsam In The Music Of Brahms: Proposing A Historically Informed Performance Practice For The Three Sonatas For Violin And Piano Of Johannes Brahms, Opp. 78, 100, And 108, Phillip Alexander Ducreay

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

This thesis explores scholarship relevant to assembling a historically informed performance practice of Brahms’s three Violin Sonatas, Opp. 78, 100, and 108 in the nineteenth-century Germanic violin tradition of which, Joseph Joachim was its greatest proponent. This inquiry, which primarily examines surviving evidence of Joachim, his pedagogical ilk, and the circle of Brahms, engages with a variety of 19th and early 20th century Germanic musical and textual evidence, including nineteenth-century musical editions, correspondence and other archival materials, and early recorded performances to propose a historically informed style. In presenting this historiography of materials relevant to forming a historically informed interpretation …


A Survey Of The Development Of The German Lied, Michael C. Haberman Aug 1963

A Survey Of The Development Of The German Lied, Michael C. Haberman

Graduate Student Research Papers

The purpose of this paper is to identify the pertinent factors that established the German Lied, to see how the most important composers developed and used these factors, and to gain a perspective of the history and the composers of the German Lied.


Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke Nov 1938

Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony a Day

Apprentice Years of a Master (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Threshold of Music: A Stormy Seventh—And Some Even More Complex Chords

Awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Playlet in Three Acts Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Stephen Foster of Tin Pan Alley in Other Days: The Magic Story of America's Most Loved Composer of Folk Songs

What Music in Sing Sing Prison Means in the Lives and Reclamation of Many Inmates

Three Notographs

Madrigals of the Days of Good Queen Bess: Polyphonhic Masterpieces of the Elizabethan Era Formerly Heard by Few But Now Heard by Millions Over …


Volume 51, Number 07 (July 1933), James Francis Cooke Jul 1933

Volume 51, Number 07 (July 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Discipline versus Coddling

Summer Progress in Music Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Some Fallacious Theories

Is Music a Language?

Johannes Brahms—Portrait

Playing Duets with Brahms

Destiny and a Brahms Autograp

Music's Role in Healing: History Reveals the Curious Use of Music in Therapeutics

Structure of Music: Counterpoint—The Interweaving of Melodies

To Improve Octaves

Scottish Song Stories

Making Music Teaching Opportunities

Musical Tea

Genius of Jessie L. Gaynor: An Intimate Picture of Remarkable Figure in American Musical Education

Those Interesting Scales

Lost Schubert Masterpiece

Vacation Practice Schedule


Volume 46, Number 05 (May 1928), James Francis Cooke May 1928

Volume 46, Number 05 (May 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musician and Fly

Maxims for Pianoforte Students

Matter of Hour Lessons

Largo from The New World Symphony

Oboe in the Kettle

History of a Best Seller

Rubinstein, the Leonine

Napoli E' Una Canzone

Ethics in the Musical Profession

Fifth Finger

Cinderella at the Piano

Wonderful New Etching of Johannes Brahms

One Hour at the Piano: A Highly Concentrated Plan of Study by a Famous London Teacher

Orchestral Innovations

How to Get the Right Number of Notes in Repeated Figures

Reading Chords Simplified

Keeping Right Tempo

Practical Memorizing

Making Note Reading Easy

Row Boat Playing

Self-Help Lesson in Modern Pedaling

Romance …


Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke Apr 1917

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …


Volume 33, Number 04 (April 1915), James Francis Cooke Apr 1915

Volume 33, Number 04 (April 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Ideas for Busy Music Workers

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life: Not a Needless Accomplishment (symposium)

Making Music the Language of the Child

How Schumann and Mendelssohn Regarded Poverty

How Long Should We Practice?

Don't Evade the Difficult Tasks

Practice Materials Leading to a Complete Technic

Influence of Music on the Body

Simplicity of Success

Rotary Arm Movement in Piano Playing: A Widely Accepted Technical Discovery of Dr. William Mason

Brahms as a Pianist and as a Conductor

Forgotten Belgian Composer

Better Understanding of Tempo Rubato

Musical Girl and The Vision, The

Manifestations of the Composers' Characters in …


Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke Oct 1914

Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Opening the Season: Ideas Mined from Real Teaching Experience

Common Sense at the Pupils' Recital

Opera and Tunes

Save Beethoven from his Friends

Beginning Work in Interpretation

Which is the Better Teacher—The Virtuoso Without Teaching Experience or the Experienced Teacher Who Does Not Pretend to be a Brilliant Performer? (symposium)

Waltz King

Salon Music of the Past and Present

Best of the new Music Issued by the Leading Publishers

How Shall I Go About Publishing My Piece? Advice and Warning

Scale Playing in Double Notes

Playing for Nothing

Key to Teaching Efficiency

Some Interesting Facts About Frederick Kuhlau

Long Distance …


Volume 31, Number 01 (January 1913), James Francis Cooke Jan 1913

Volume 31, Number 01 (January 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Personal Recollections of Famous Musicians

How Fine Editions Help the Student and the Teacher

Place of Technic in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

What Significance Has the Weight of the Arm in Piano Playing?

Making a Start as a Music Teacher

Delightful Home for Retired Music Teachers

Then and Now: Thirty Years of Advance in Musical America (symposium)

With the World's Great Educators—Herbart

Hugo Wolf's Method of Composition

Positive vs. Negative Teaching

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Brahms

Well Known Composers of To-day—George Dudley Martin

Why Must I Practice Slowly?

Rubinstein's …


Volume 25, Number 06 (June 1907), Winton J. Baltzell Jun 1907

Volume 25, Number 06 (June 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johannes Brahms: The Classical Spirit in Music

Some Sayings of Brahms

Estimate of Brahms' Work

Brahms as a Practical Joker

How Liszt Taught

Chorus in the Small Town, with Some Side-Lights on Its Influence on American Music

Edvard Grieg: The Scandinavian Spirit in Music

Jacques the Dreamer: The Story of a Musician, with a Moral in It

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns: A Representative of French Music

Story of the Minuet

History Questions for Music Students

Importance of Finger Training

Cornelius Gurlitt

Monument to Stephen Heller