"attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III
(2018)
Journal Article
Gotham, M. R. H. (2018). "attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III. Music Theory Spectrum, 40(1), 138 – 153. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mty010
This analysis assesses tempo choice in the third movement of Brahms’s Second Symphony. It is shown that, at key moments of the movement, the average tempi used in a sample of commercial recordings align closely with those suggested by the “attractor”... Read More about "attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III.