Johannes Brahms was until now widely regarded as the archetype of the «absolute musician». Based on new research, the study shows how close autobiographic and poetic elements are in fact linked to his oeuvre. Like Robert Schumann, Brahms...

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical,...

In the last third of the 19 century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later?...

Five kondakarian manuscripts dating from the 11 to 13 century belong among the oldest witnesses of Russian church music. The Slavonic church texts are accompanied by a peculiar notation which represents the most complex notational system...

Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his...

The present autobiography sets out from the contrast between "establishment" and "outsiders" in science and scholarship. It portrays a number of prominent composers, conductors and musicologists and seeks to illuminate the nature of the...

Alban Berg von Floros, Constantin

Komposition als Kommunikation von Floros, Constantin

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear...

Musik in ihrer Tiefendimension zu erfassen ist eine Kunst, die sich erlernen und perfektionieren lässt. Formalanalytische Kategorien spielen dabei eine untergeordnete Rolle - mindestens ebenso wichtig ist es, Klangfarben, dynamische...

Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts zeichnet sich durch eine verwirrende Vielzahl an Richtungen aus. Mehrere, teilweise gegensätzliche Strömungen bestehen oft zur selben Zeit nebeneinander. In ihnen schlagen sich geistige Orientierungen,...

Einführung in die Neumenkunde von Floros, Constantin