Brahms and the shaping of time

Introduction: Brahms, analysis, and time / Scott Murphy

Part One. Setting Texts: 1. Expressive declamation in the songs of Johannes Brahms / Harald Krebs ; 2. Temporal disruptions and shifting levels of discourse in Brahms's Lieder / Heather Platt

Part Two. Measuring Phrases: 3. Phrase rhythm and the expression of longing in Brahms's "Gestillte Sehnsucht," Op 91, No. 1 / Jan Miyake ; 4. On the oddness of Brahms's five-measure phrases / Samuel Ng

Part Three. Recasting Hemiolas: 5. Hemiola as agent of metric resolution in the music of Brahms / Ryan McClelland ; 6. Brahms at twenty: hemiolic varietals and metric malleability in an early sonata / Richard Cohn

Part Four. Shifting Perspectives: 7. Containment and wave: temporal experiment in Brahms's Opus 2 / Frank Samarotto ; 8. Rhythmic displacement in the fugue of Brahms's Handel variations: the refashioning of a traditional device / Eytan Agmon ; 9. Durational enharmonicism and the opening of Brahms's "Double concerto" / Scott Murphy.