The Expressive Motivation of Meter Changes in Brahms's Lieder

Metric dissonance in Brahms’s music is not an unfamiliar topic. Hemiola, offbeat accents, and syncopations are Brahms’s common metric strategies. These metric manipulations often facilitate a displacement between the audible and the notated downbeats, leading many scholars to question the importance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lau, Wing
Other Authors: Rodgers, Stephen
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19314