Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

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[+] Brodbeck, David. "Primo Schubert, Secondo Schumann: Brahms's Four-hand Waltzes, Op. 39." Journal of Musicology 7 (Winter 1989): 58-80.

Brahms's models for Opus 39 came from Schubert's Twelve Ländler (Op. 171) and Schumann's Davidsbündlertanze. Brahms acknowledged the debt to Schubert, as seen in examples of harmonic similarities and the introduction of counterpoint into simple dance forms. The bipartite division and "double ending" of Opus 39 seems to have been inspired by Schumann's Davidsbündlertanze, which was comprised of two sets of dances ending with two conclusive pieces.

Index Classifications: 1800s

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