Table of Contents

Introduction: Romantic Musical Discourse, Or, A Rhetoric Of Romantic Music
Part I. Fragmentation and Atemporality
1. Fragmentation: Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
2. Atemporality in Narrative and Music
Part II. Structural and Rhetorical Strategies in Music with and Without Text
3. Music With Text: Two Slow Movements by Brahms
4. Music Without Text: Forms of Atemporality
Part III. Brahms's Piano Sonatas
5. Treatment of the Medial Caesura
6. Treatment of the S-Space
7. Treatment of the Development and Recapitulation
8. Treatment of the Slow Introduction and Coda
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Andrew Davis is Dean of the College of the Arts at the University of Houston and author of Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (IUP).

Reviews

"...a major achievement."—Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject