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Article: Brahms's Song Collections.(Book review)
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Brahms's Song Collections. By Inge Van Rij. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [xii, 271 p. ISBN-10: 0-52183-558-5; ISBN-13: 978-0-52183-558-9. $90.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographic references, bibliography, indexes.
Researching song cycles is a problem: scholars have not been able to formulate a uniform definition of the genre because so many works of varying characteristics have been labeled as cycles. It is well known that Brahms referred to his published groupings of songs as bouquets rather than cycles, but no one has offered a systematic investigation of what this means. As a result, most discussions of Brahms's song cycles focus on ...