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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449698303321

Autore

Samson Jim

Titolo

Virtuosity and the musical work : the Transcendental studies of Liszt / / Jim Samson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13391-2

1-280-43417-1

0-511-17891-3

0-511-04253-1

0-511-14887-9

0-511-32374-3

0-511-48196-9

0-511-04570-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

786.2/092

Soggetti

Music - 19th century - History and criticism

Virtuosity in musical performance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes études (1837), and their reworking as Douzes études d'exécution 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.