브람스의 피아노 랩소디 Op.79와 Op. 119, No.4의 분석연구 = The Formal Structure of Brahms’ Three Rhapsodies for Piano, Op.79 and Op.119, No.4

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The term rhapsody originally refers to the song of the ancient Greek rhapsodist, or professional reciter and chanter of epic poetry. It was applied to Instrumental music without regular form early in the nineteenth century. Although rhapsody was not confined to any particular medium, Romantic composers wrote rhapsodies mostly for piano or orchestra.
In 1869, Brahms wrote Rhapsodie, Op.53, for contralto, men's chorus and orchestra, setting a portion of Goethe's poem Harzreise in Winter. Ten years later, he composed two piano pieces under the same title, Two Rhapsodies, Op.79 in 1879. Another rhapsody for piano was written in 1892 as one of the four piano pieces in Piano Pieces, Op.ll9.
Brahms is generally regarded as one of the conservative composers of the Romantic period, and his later piano works still show many characteristics of the Classical style. Although it is believed that Brahms applied the term rhapsody somewhat loosely for description of works, the formal structure of his three Rhapsodies for piano could fall into some kind of ternary design. The formal design of each piece is discussed in this paper in order to find out which Classical form was used as a model for Brahms’s piano Rhapsodies.