Semantic Study of Johannes Brahms'' Music

• Main Authors: Wei-Hann Lee, 李韋翰
• Other Authors: 王美珠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23561215711787129848

博士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 音樂學系博士班 === 99 === The works of nineteenth century composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), including his small pieces for piano and symphonies, reflect well how he felt for life. The loneliness and sorrow in his music, however, didn’t mean hopeless. Despite the grief of the deaths of his friends in his later life, Brahms, through his religion, believed the power of love is greater than death, and thus kept himself rational instead of depressed. In 1983, which was Brahms’ 150th birthday, the Brahms Music Association was established in the United States. Countless music critics and performers have kept seeking new meaning from his creation, and after the complete collection of Brahms came out, the semantic issues of his creation have become the new research objectives. One of the reasons that Brahms’ music is still much interested is that he created a new form of music language and reinterpreted the contents of spirits and minds, and so the richness in the expression is well accepted and popular among people. Nevertheless, it needs a long period of listening and analyses to discover the inner expression of Brahms’ music. Brahms himself didn’t like to discuss his own work, so the understanding of the meaning behind them would alter as the environment or other elements change. This thesis mainly discusses the semantic researches in Brahms’ music through not only the original structure of his work, but also his personal experiences, re-examining the hidden semantic interpretation by observing the historical proof and with the references of the social level and the world view of the composer’s time.