The Brahmsian Hairpin | 19th-Century Music | University of California Press

David Hyun-Su Kim is a doctoral candidate in piano performance at the New England Conservatory, where he is currently completing a dissertation that seeks to establish a phenomenology of skill acquisition as it relates to practicing on musical instruments. He specializes in performance on late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century keyboard instruments. His other musical interests include improvisation, pedagogy, and the structures of musical institutions. David Hyun-Su Kim; The Brahmsian Hairpin. 19th-Century Music 1 July 2012; 36 (1): 46–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2012.36.1.046 Download citation file: Hairpins, the notation symbols < and >, are today universally accepted as equivalent to the markings crescendo and diminuendo, calling for an increase or decrease in volume. This view is irreconcilable with the scores of the core German repertoire of the nineteenth century. This article offers a new understanding of hairpins based on careful examination of the scores of Brahms and

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