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Brahms’s “Great Tragic Opera”: Melodic Drama in “Ach, wende diesen Blick” (op. 57, no. 4)

Music theory online, 2011-04, Vol.17 (1) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Society for Music Theory Apr 2011 ;ISSN: 1067-3040 ;EISSN: 1067-3040 ;DOI: 10.30535/mto.17.1.4

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  • Title:
    Brahms’s “Great Tragic Opera”: Melodic Drama in “Ach, wende diesen Blick” (op. 57, no. 4)
  • Author: Hoag, Melissa E.
  • Subjects: Musical recordings ; Opera ; Problems
  • Is Part Of: Music theory online, 2011-04, Vol.17 (1)
  • Description: Nineteenth-century critic Hermann Kretzschmar’s hearing of the first four songs of op. 57 as a “great tragic opera“ offers a fitting starting point for this analytical essay on Brahms’s song, “Ach, wende diesen Blick” (op. 57, no. 4), the very song referenced in Kretzschmar’s remark. This essay demonstrates how Brahms constructs drama through several prominent pitch constructs that unfold as musical representations of the poetic conflict. This will be achieved primarily through voice-leading analysis and explication of an event called a melodic disjunction , a linear construction that arises as a result of Brahms’s complex contrapuntal style. Often composed of more than one strand of linear motion (as in a compound melody), the melodic disjunction features a seemingly anomalous leap or gap that is created when one of these melodic lines is abruptly abandoned, and any residue of melodic implication in the line is not resolved immediately, or at all. Along with several other disruptive pitch events that recur throughout the song, the melodic disjunction in op. 57, no. 4 avoids traditional resolution for dramatic reasons.
  • Publisher: Chicago: Society for Music Theory
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1067-3040
    EISSN: 1067-3040
    DOI: 10.30535/mto.17.1.4
  • Source: ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
    ProQuest Central
    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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