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Article: Brahms's Song Collections
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- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Brahms's Song Collections, by Inge Van Rij. Cambridge University Press (wunv.cambridge.orglus; (845) 353-7500), 2006. 271 pp. $90.
Inge Van Rij, music lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, provides a new study of the connective aspects of Brahms's song sets. Previous major scholarship on Brahms songs (Lucien Stark, 1995; Eric Sams, 2000) studied each song individually. With the possible exception of the Magelone lieder, Op. 33, and the Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121, Brahms's songs have never been approached as cycles or cohesive sets. However, Brahms complained to his friend Alwin von Beckarath in 1883 that most singers performed his songs in arbitrary groupings, paying ...