Virtuosity and the musical work : the Transcendental studies of Liszt
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Virtuosity and the musical work : the Transcendental studies of Liszt
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index
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Description
This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes etudes (1837), and their reworking as Douzes etudes d'execution transcendante (1851). At the same time it is a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general, in that the three works invite the exploration of features characteristic of the early Romantic era in music. These include: a composer-performer culture, the concept of virtuosity, the significance of recomposition, music and the poetic, and the consolidation of a musical work-concept. A central concern is to illuminate the relationship between the work-concept and a performance- and genre-orientated musical culture. At the same time the book reflects on how we might make judgements of the 'Transcendentals', of the Symphonic Poem Mazeppa (based on the fourth etude), and of Liszt's music in general.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Ecology by numbers
- 2. Of maps and materials
- 3. Composing the performance
- 4. Making and remaking
- 5. Forms and reforms
- 6. Suggestion and symbol
- 7. Mazeppa times 7
- Bibliography
- Index.
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