Brahms, who had to extend so many of these inclinations to their most complex reaches. In his recognition of ambiguity as a compositional value of extensive implications; ... and in his working of rhythms, both local and more extensive, to produce syncopes, metric displacements, and other avoidances of regularity. The phenomenon of rhythmic and metric ambiguities observed in Brahms' .He has often been discussed in music theory. Schonberg describes the peculiarities by means of phrase lengths causing metrical displacements. According to him Brahms made use of irregular phrase lengths in such an extensive way, that under his influence ...