The music of Franz Liszt : stylistic development and cultural synthesis
- Responsibility
- Michael Saffle.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Copyright notice
- ©2018
- Physical description
- 1 online resource.
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- Author/Creator
- Saffle, Michael, 1946- author.
- Contributor
- Taylor & Francis
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 1. Liszt's Apprenticeship: The Performer as Emerging Composer
- 2. Liszt Comes of Age: The Composer as Fantasist
- 3. Liszt Adapts and Transforms: The Fantasist/Composer as Re-composer
- 4. Liszt Orchestrates and "Explains": The Fantasist/(Re-)composer as Tone-Poet
- 5. Liszt and the Voice.
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- Publisher's summary
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Much of Franz Liszt's musical legacy has often been dismissed as 'trivial' or 'merely showy, ' more or less peripheral contributions to nineteenth-century European culture. But Liszt was a mainstream composer in ways most of his critics have failed to acknowledge; he was also an incessant and often extremely successful innovator. Liszt's mastery of fantasy and sonata traditions, his painstaking settings of texts ranging from erotic verse to portions of the Catholic liturgy, and the remarkable self-awareness he demonstrated even in many of his most 'entertaining' pieces: all these things stamp him not only as a master of Romanticism and an early Impressionist, but as a precursor of Postmodern 'pop.' Liszt's Music places Liszt in historical and cultural focus. At the same time, it examines his principal contributions to musical literature -- from his earliest operatic paraphrases to his final explorations of harmonic and formal possibilities. Liszt's compositional methods, including his penchant for revision, problems associated with early editions of some of his works, and certain aspects of class and gender issues are also discussed. The first book-length assessment of Liszt as composer since Humphrey Searle's 1956 volume, Liszt's Music is illustrated with well over 100 musical examples.
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- Publication date
- 2018
- Copyright date
- 2018
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN
- 9781351243339 (electronic bk.)
- 1351243330 (electronic bk.)
- 9781409411734
- 1409411737
- 9781351243315 (electronic bk.)
- 1351243314 (electronic bk.)
- 9781351243322 (PDF ebook)
- 1351243322 (PDF ebook)
- 9781351243308 (Mobipocket ebook)
- 1351243306 (Mobipocket ebook)
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