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On Metre in the Rondo of Brahms's Op. 25
Murphy, Scott
Murphy, Scott
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The rondo from Brahms's Piano Quartet Op. 25 projects a number of different metres which may be
organised into various metric spaces modelled on those of David Lewin and Richard Cohn. Although
this organisation does not yield the multiple pitch-time analogical mappings proposed by Lewin and
Cohn, it may be fruitfully applied to many works of Brahms and other composers. I argue that a
movement's centrally located metre (the work's `logical' metric tonic) tends also to be its primary
metre (the work's `rhetorical' metric tonic), and outline a new method for hearing contiguities in
certain metric spaces. I conclude by designing a metric space tailored for the metres of the Op. 25
rondo, in which the refrain's `tonic' metre is centrally located in three dimensions.
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2007
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Murphy, Scott. “On Metre in the Rondo of Brahms’s Op. 25,” Music Analysis 26/3 (October 2007): 323-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2249.2008.00261.x