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The Socratic method of Brahms
Title: The Socratic method of Brahms
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 316 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Socratic method of Brahms
The year 1997 marks the centennial of the death of Johannes Brahms. To understand how Brahms conceptualised musical metaphor, we can learn how he "translates" a written text into music.
Brahms' pupil Gustav Jenner wrote an insightful book entitled “Johannes Brahms as Man, Teacher and Artist” form which the following quote is extracted
"Brahms demanded from the composer above all, that he know his text completely....it was certainly in no way sufficient for Brahms, when …showed first 75 words of 316 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 316 total…are just thrown together from an accumulation of word-painting, he has never composed. If the direction of the melody was excessively oriented to the particular word-expression, this he would rebuke with the words, 'More from the whole!', thereby penetrating to the heart of the matter."¹
One of Brahms' most powerful Lieder is entitled "Geistliches Wiegenlied" ("Spiritual Lullaby"), Opus 91, scored for mezzo-soprano, piano and viola. As Brahms instructed Jenner, we should begin by examining the text.
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