This volume is an analytical study of 18 works by Brahms, making skillful use of Schoenberg's provocative concept of developing variation. It traces a genuine e
The Chorale Preludes of Opus 122, Brahms's final work, present an analytical challenge. Are the Chorales Preludes simply superb variations on their respective c
Combines fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, m
"...By developing variation Schoenberg means the construction of a theme by continuous modification of one or more features (intervals, rhythms) of a basic idea