This selected bibliography is taken from my dissertation: "The Clarinet
and its Use as a Solo Instrument in the Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms,"
Peabody Conservatory, 1991, and is offered here as a resource for clarinettists.
Notes: The French and German accents and umlauts have been stripped from this document. This bibliography was prepared by converting the dissertation from Word Perfect 4.2 to 5.1, then to 6.1, then to HTML using Internet Assistant, then edited with GNU sed and vi.
Abraham, Gerald. A Hundred Years of Music. Chicago: Aldine, 1964.
Alley, Marguerite, and Jean Alley. A Passionate Friendship: Clara Schumann and Brahms. Trans. Mervyn Savill. London: Staples, 1956.
Altenburg, Wilhelm. Die Klarinette. Heilbronn: N. C. F. Schmidt, 1904.
----------. "Ein vergessene Klarinett-Virtuosin aus der ersten Halfte des verflossenen Jahrhunderts." Deutsche Militarmusikerzeitung, 29, No. 35 (1907), p. 1.
Antcliffe, Herbert. Brahms. London: Bell, 1905.
Baines, Anthony. European and American Musical Instruments. London: Batsford, 1966.
----------. Musical Instruments through the Ages. New York: Walker, 1975.
----------. Woodwind Instruments and their History. New York: Norton, 1963.
Barkan, Hans, ed. and trans. Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Barmann, Karl. Complete Celebrated Method for Clarinet, I. Trans. and ed. Gustav Langenus. New York: Fischer, 1918.
----------. Vollstandige Klarinett-Schule, I, Op. 63. Ed. Oskar Schubert. Offenbach am Main: Andre, 1917.
Barth, Richard, ed. Johannes Brahms und seine Musik. Hamburg: Meisner, 1904.
----------. Johannes Brahms und seine Musik. Hamburg: Meisner, 1904.
Becker, Heinz, et al. "Klarinette." Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ed. Friedrich Blume. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1949.
Berry, Wallace. Form in Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Bickley, Nora, ed. and trans. Letters To and From Joachim. London: Macmillan, 1914.
Blume, Fredrich. Classical and Romantic Music. Trans. M. D. Herter Norton. New York: Norton, 1970.
Brahms, Johannes. Briefwechsel. 15 vols. Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1908-14.
----------. Briefwechsel mit Clara Schumann. Leipzig: B. Litzmann, 1927.
----------. Complete Chamber Music for Strings and Clarinet Quintet. Ed. Hans Gal. 1927; rpt. New York: Dover, 1968.
----------. Quintet, B minor, Op. 115, for Clarinet and String Quartet. Autograph MS. Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien.
----------. Quintet, B Minor, Op. 115, for Clarinet and String Quartet. London: Boosey and Hawkes, 1963.
----------. Quintett fur Klarinette (oder Bratsche), 2 Violinen, Bratsche, und Violoncell, B moll, Op. 115. Berlin: Simrock, 1892.
----------. Samtliche Werke. 26 vols. Ed. H. Gal and E. Mandyczewski. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1926-27.
----------. Sonata, F minor, Op. 120, No. 1, for Clarinet and Piano. Autograph MS sketch. Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien.
----------. Sonata, F minor, Op. 120, No. 1, for Clarinet and Piano. Autograph MS. Staats-und Universitatsbibliothek, Hamburg.
----------. Sonata, F minor, Op. 120, No. 1, for Clarinet and Piano. Wien: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1973.
----------. Trio (A-moll) fur Clarinette (oder Bratsche) unc Violoncell, Op. 114. Berlin: Simrock, 1892.
----------. Trio fur Pianoforte, Clarinette und Violoncello, Op. 114. Introd. Alfons Ott. Tutzing: Musikverlag Hans Schneider, 1958.
----------. Zwei Sonaten fur Clarinette (oder Bratsche) und Pianoforte, Op. 120, No. 1 F moll, No. 2 Es dur. Berlin: Simrock, 1895.
Brand, Friedrich. Das wesen der kammermusik von Brahms. Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1937.
Brook, Barry S. Thematic Catalogs in Music. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1972.
Bruyr, Jose. Brahms. Paris: Seuil, 1965.
Brymer, Jack. Clarinet. New York: Schirmer, 1976.
Burnett, James. Brahms, A Critical Study. New York: Praeger, 1972.
Carse, Adam. History of Orchestration. New York: Dutton, 1925.
----------. Musical Wind Instruments. 1939; rpt. New York: Da Capo, 1965.
Chissell, Joan. Brahms. London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
Clinch, P. "The Clarinet to the nineteenth century - a documented account." Studies in Music, No. 9 (1975), pp. 19-40.
Cobbett, Walter W., and Colin Mason, eds. Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. 3 vols. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963.
Colles, Henry Cope. Brahms: The Music of the Masters. New York: Brentano, 1908.
----------. Chamber Music of Brahms. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1933.
Czesla, Werner. "Studien zum Finale in der Kammermusik von Johannes Brahms." Diss. Univ. of Bonn 1968.
Dahlhaus, Carl. "Brahms und die Idee der Kammermusik." Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 134, No. 9 (1973), pp. 559-63.
Dale, Kathleen. Brahms: a biography, with a survey of books, editions and recordings. London: Bigley, 1970.
Dedel, Peter. Johannes Brahms, a guide to his autographs in facsimile. Ann Arbor: MLA, 1978.
Deiters, Hermann. Johannes Brahms, a biographical sketch. 2 vols. Trans. Rosa Newmarch. London: Unwin, 1888.
Densmore, Frances. Handbook to the collection of musical instruments in the U.S. National Museum. Washington: GPO, 1927.
Deutsch, Otto Erich. "First Editions of Brahms." Music Review, 1, No. 2 (May, 1940), pp. 123-43; 1, No. 3 (August, 1940), pp. 256-78.
Dietrich, A., and J. V. Widmann. Recollections of Johannes Brahms. Trans. Dora Hecht. London: Seely, 1899.
Drinker, Henry S. The Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms. Philadelphia: Elkan-Vogel, 1932.
Drinker, Sophie. Brahms and His Women's Choruses. Merion, Pa.: S. Drinker, 1952.
Dyson, George. "Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op. 115." Musical Times, 76, No. 110 (April, 1935), pp. 315-19.
Eberst, Anton. Klarinet i Klarinetisti. Novi Sad, Jugoslavia: Forum Press, 1964.
Ehrmann, Alfred von. "Johannes Brahms: Thematisches Verzeichnis." In Johannes Brahms: weg, werke und welt. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1933.
----------. Johannes Brahms: Weg, Werk und Welt. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1933.
Einstein, Alfred. Music in the Romantic Era. New York: Norton, 1947.
Elsenaar, Evert. De Clarinet. Hilversum: Lispet, 1928.
Evans, Edwin. Handbook to the Chamber and Orchestral Music of Johannes Brahms. 1933; rpt. New York: B. Franklin, 1970.
----------. Handbook to the Piano Music of Brahms. London: W. Reeves, 1936.
----------. Historical, Descriptive and Analytical Account of the Entire Works of Johannes Brahms. 4 vols. London: W. Reeves, 1912.
Farris, John A. "The Clarinet in Chamber Music from Mozart through Brahms." Thesis North Texas State Univ. 1950.
Faulkner, Maurice. "The Great Viennese Clarinet Tradition." The Instrumentalist, 24, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 62-65.
Fellinger, Imogen. Uber die Dynamik in der Musik von Johannes Brahms. Berlin: M. Hesse, 1961.
Fellinger, R. Klange um Brahms. Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1933.
Fenske, David Edward. "Texture in the Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms." Diss. Univ. of Wisconsin 1973.
Fry, J. "Brahms's Conception of the Scherzo in Chamber Music." Musical Times, 84, No. 1202 (April, 1943) pp. 105-07.
Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander. Johannes Brahms. New York: John Lane, 1911.
----------. "Muhlfeld, Richard." Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 5th ed. Ed. Eric Blom. New York: St. Martins Press, 1954.
Gal, Hans. Johannes Brahms: His Work and Personality. Trans. Joseph Stein. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Geiringer, Karl. Brahms: His Life and Work. London: Allen and Unwin, 1948. ----------. Instruments in the History of Western Music. 1943; rpt. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978.
----------. "Johannes Brahms im Briefwechsel mit Eusebius Mandyczewski." ZMW, No. 15 (1933), pp. 337-70.
----------, and Irene Geiringer. "The Brahms Library in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wein." Notes, 30, No. 1 (September, 1973), pp. 7-14.
Grden, Albin John. "The historical and mechanical development of the clarinet from the chalameau to the present day." Thesis Peabody Conservatory 1955.
Gorgerat, Gerald. Encyclopedie de la musique pour instruments a vent. 3 vols. Lausanne: Editions Recontre, 1955.
Goss, Madeline, and Robert Schauffler. Brahms the Master. New York: Holt, 1943.
Grahm, Jack E. "An Analysis of Brahms's Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, for Clarinet and Strings." Thesis North Texas State 1968.
Grasberger, Franz. Johannes Brahms: Variationen um sein Wesen. Vienna: P. Kaltschmid, 1952.
Graue, Jerald C., ed. Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Madison: A-R Editions, 1978.
Gray, Cecil. "Johannes Brahms." In Heritage of Music. Ed. Hubert J. Foss. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1927, vol. 1.
Grout, Donald Jay. A History of Western Music. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1980.
Hadow, Sir William Henry. Collected Essays. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1928.
----------. Studies in Modern Music. London: Seely, 1902.
Hafner, Roland. Johannes Brahms, Klarinettenquintett. Munchen: Fink, 1978.
Harding, H. A. "Some Thoughts upon the Position of Johannes Brahms among the Masters of Music." PMA, 33 (1907), pp. 159-74.
Haupt, Helga. "Wiener Instrumentenbauer von 1791 bis 1815." Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 24 (1960), pp. 120-84.
Helms, Siegmund. "Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von Johannes Brahms und ihr Verhaltnis zu Volkschiedern und Volkstumlichen Weisen." Diss. Free Univ. Berlin 1968.
Henschel, George. Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms. Boston: R. G. Badger, 1907.
Henried, R. Johannes Brahms. Leipzig: Reclam, 1934.
Heyer, Anna Harriet. Historical Sets, Collected Editions and Monuments of Music. 2nd ed. Chicago: ALA, 1969.
Hill, Ralph. Brahms. London: D. Archer, 1933.
Hipkins, Alfred James. Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Black, 1888.
Hurlimann, M., ed. and trans. Composers' Autographs. 2 vols. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
Imbert, Hughes. Etude sur Johannes Brahms avec le catalogue ses oeuvres. Paris: Fischbacher, 1894.
Jacobson, Bernard. The Music of Johannes Brahms. London: Tantivity, 1977.
Jansen, F. Gustav, ed. Gesammelte Schriften uber musik und musiker von Robert Schumann. 2 vols. 4th ed. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1891.
Jenner, G. Johannes Brahms als Mensch, Lehrer und Kunstler. Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 1905.
Kalbeck, Max. Johannes Brahms. 8 vols. Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1908-14.
----------, ed. Johannes Brahms: The Herzongenberg Correspondence. Trans. Hannah Bryant. New York: Dutton, 1909.
Kell, Reginald. "The Clarinet Music of Johannes Brahms." Woodwind World, 4, No. 3 (December, 1960), p. 5.
Kroll, Oskar. Die Klarinette. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1965.
----------. "Die Klarinette in der Kammermusik." Die Musikwoche, 4, No. 49 (December, 1936), pp. 2-6.
Landormy, Paul Charles Rene. Brahms. Paris: F. Alcan, 1920.
Langwill, Lindesay. An index of musical wind-instruments makers. Edinburgh: Langwill, 1972.
Lara, Adelina de. Finale. London: Burke, 1955.
Larson, Arne Baldwin. "The History of the Clarinet and Development of Other Single-Reed instruments." Thesis Northwestern Univ. 1944.
Latham, Peter. Brahms. London: J.M. Dent, 1948.
Laux, Karl. Der Einsame: Johannes Brahms, Leben und Werk. Graz: A. Pustet, 1944.
Lee, E, Markham. Brahms: The Man and His Music. London: Sampson Row, 1925.
Leichentritt, Hugo. Musical Form. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1951.
Leyen, R. von der. Johannes Brahms als Mensch und Freund. Dusseldorf: K. R. Langewresche, 1905.
Litterscheid, R., ed. Johannes Brahms in seinen Schriften und Briefen. Berlin: B. Hahnefeld, 1943.
Litzmann, Berthold. Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life. Trans. Grace E. Hadow. London: Macmillan, 1913.
----------. Clara Schumann-Johannes Brahms, briefe aus den jahren 1853-1896. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1927.
Longyear, Rey M. Nineteenth Century Romanticism in Music. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Luithlen, V. "Brahms's Werke in Variationenform." SMW, 14 (1927), pp. 286-320.
Maas, Gary L. "Problems of form in the clarinet quintet of Brahms." Thesis Wisconsin 1967.
McClain, Ernest Glenn. "A Guide to the Major Clarinet Composers of Mozart, Weber and Brahms." Diss. Columbia 1959.
McCorkle, Donald, and Margit L. McCorkle. "Five Fundamental Problems in Brahms Source Research." ACM, 48 (1976), pp. 253-72.
Marcuse, Sybil. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. New York: Norton, 1975.
Mason, Daniel Gregory. The Chamber Music of Brahms. New York: Macmillan, 1933.
May, Florence. Life of Johannes Brahms. 2 vols. London: Arnold, 1905.
Meyer, Hans. Linie und form: Bach-Beethoven-Brahms. Leipzig: Kahnt, 1930.
Mies, Paul. Johannes Brahms. Leipzig: Quelle und Meyer, 1930.
Mimart, Prosper. "La Clarinette." Encyclopedie de la Musique et dictionnaire du conservatoire. Ed. Lionel de la Laurencie. Paris: C. Delagrave, 1927.
Muller-Blatteau, Joseph Maria. Johannes Brahms. Potsdam: Akademische verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1933.
Muller, H. J. M. Johannes Brahms. Haarlem: Gottmer, 1948.
Murdoch, William. Brahms: With an Analytical Study of the Complete Pianoforte Works. London: Rich and Cowan, 1933.
Newmann, William S. The Sonata Since Beethoven. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1969.
Niemann, Walter. Brahms. Trans. Catherine Alison Phillips. New York: Cooper Square, 1969.
Ophuls, G. Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms. Berlin: Deutschen Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1921.
Orel, Alfred. Johannes Brahms und Julius Allgeyer, eine Kunstlerfreundschaft in Briefen. Tutzing: H Schneider, 1964.
Pascall, Robert John. "Formal Principles in the Music of Brahms." Diss. Oxford 1973.
----------. "Some Special Uses of Sonata Form by Brahms." Soundings, 4 (1974), pp. 58-63.
Pauli, Walther. Brahms. Berlin: Pan, 1907.
Pickar, Richard William. "A Comparative Analysis of Three Editions of the Clarinet Quintet in B minor." Thesis Sam Houston State Univ. 1964.
Portnoy, Bernard. "Brahm's [sic] Prima Donna." Woodwind Magazine, 1, No. 5 (March, 1949), pp. 3, 8.
Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970.
Pulver, Jeffrey. Johannes Brahms. London: Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1926.
Radcliffe, Philip F. "Brahms." Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 5th ed. Ed. Eric Blom. New York: St. Martins Press, 1954.
Ratterree, Jack L. "The Clarinet and its use in the String Trios and String Quartets by Mozart and Brahms." Thesis American Univ. 1964.
Rav, U. "Die Kammermusik fur Klarinette und Streichinstrumente in Zeitalter der Wiener Klassik." Diss. Saarbruecken 1975.
Reminiscences of Clara Schumann: From the Diary of her Grandson Ferdinand Schumann. By the Schumann Memorial Foundation. 1949; rpt. New York: Musical Scope, 1973.
Rendall, Frances Geoffrey. The Clarinet. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.
Sachs, Curt. History of Musical Instruments. New York: Norton, 1940.
Schauffler, Robert Haven. The Unknown Brahms: His Life, Character, and Works; Based on New Material. New York: Doubleday, 1933.
Schenker, Heinrich, ed. Johannes Brahms: Oktaven und Quinten. Vienna: Universal Editions, 1933.
Schmidt, Christian Martin. Verfahren der motivischthematischen Vermittlung in der Musik von Johannes Brahms, dargestellt an der Klarinettensonate f-moll, Op. 120, 1. Diss. Freie Univ. Berlin 1970. Munchen: Katzbichler, 1971.
Schonberg, Arnold. "Brahms the Progressive." In Style and Idea. New York: St. Martins Press, 1975.
Schumann, Eugenie. The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
The N. Simrock Thematic Catalog of the works of Johannes Brahms. 1897; rpt. New York: Da Capo, 1973.
Smyth, Ethel Mary. Impressions that Remained. London: Longmans, Green, 1919.
Specht, Richard. Johannes Brahms. Trans. Eric Blom. New York: Dutton, 1930.
Stahmer, Klaus. "Korrekturen am Brahms Bild. Eine Studie zur musikalischen Fehlinterpretation." Die Musikforschung, 25, No. 2 (April-June, 1972), pp. 152-67.
----------. Musikalische Formung in soziologischem Bezug, dargstellt an der instrumentalen Kammermusik von Johannes Brahms. Diss. Christian-Albrechts Univ. 1968. Kiel: Dissertationsdruck, 1968.
Stephenson, Kurt, ed. Johannes Brahms Hermatsbekenntis in Briefen an seine Hamburger Verwandten. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1948.
----------. Johannes Brahms in seiner Familie. Hamburg: Hanswedell, 1973.
Stillion, Lorion W. "The Clarinet." Thesis Univ. of Redlands 1947.
Strange, Richard Eugene. "The Rise of Chamber Music for Clarinet and Strings through the 19th Century." Diss. Boston Univ. 1962.
Street, Oscar W. "The Clarinet and its Music." PMA, 42 (1916), pp. 89-115.
Strunk, Oliver, ed. Source Readings in Music History. New York: Norton, 1950.
Sturke, August. Der stil in Johannes Brahms' werken, eine stillkritische untersuchung seiner Klavier-, Kammermusik-, Char- und Orchesterwerke. Wurzburg: Triltisch, 1932.
Thomas-San Galli, Wolfgang Alexander. Johannes Brahms. Munich: R. Piper, 1922.
Toenes, George. "Richard Muehlfeld." The Clarinet, No. 23 (Summer, 1956), pp. 22-23.
Tovey, Sir Donald F. Essays and Lectures in Music. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1940.
----------. Essays in Musical Analysis. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1940.
----------. The Forms of Music. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1966.
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Urbantschitsch, Viktor. "Die entwicklung der Sonatenform bei Brahms." SMW, 14 (1927), pp. 33-36.
Walker, Ernest. "Brahms." PMA, 25 (1899), pp. 115-38.
----------. "Brahms's Variations." Monthly Musical Record, 70, No. 814 (February, 1940), pp. 33-36.
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Wetschky, Jurgen. "Die Kanontechnik in der Instrumentalmusik von Johannes Brahms." Diss. Koln Univ. 1967.
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Widmann, Joseph Viktor. Johannes Brahms in Erinnerungen. Rev. ed. Willi Reich. Basel: Amerbach, 1947.
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Winternitz, Emmanuel. Musical Autographs, from Monteverdi to Hindemith. 2 vols. 1955; rpt. New York: Dover, 1965.
Yasser, Joseph. Theory of Evolving Tonality. New York: American Library of Musicology, 1932.