Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
- Author: Joanne Cormac, University of Nottingham
- Date Published: September 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316632642
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Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their 'extramusical' subject matter. This book takes a different approach: it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scène, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner.
Read more- Overturns the traditional view of the symphonic poems, an original argument that will change the way readers understand the genre of symphonic poems and Liszt's music in general
- Combines musical analysis, contextual and historical discussion, analysis of manuscripts and aesthetics, offering readers an in-depth and original discussion of the material
- Repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre and conducting history, appealing to readers with a broader interest in opera and theatre in the nineteenth century
Awards
- 2020 Alan Walker Triennial Book Award, American Liszt Society
Reviews & endorsements
'… a richly detailed interdisciplinary study that provides context for the symphonic poems' evolution, as well as a synthesis of Liszt's multifarious activities between February 1848 and August 1861 … The trenchant scholarship of Liszt and the Symphonic Poem is leavened with 77 music examples, reproductions of playbills and 11 helpful tables that detail, among other things, the evolution of individual symphonic poems as well as formal analyses.' Patrick Rucker, Gramophone Magazine
See more reviews‘I believe Liszt and the Symphonic Poem is a game-changer for our understanding of Liszt as a dramatic composer … beautifully written and meticulously researched.’ R. Larry Todd, Official citation for the 2020 Alan Walker Triennial Book Award, The American Liszt Society
‘… Liszt and the Symphonic Poem [is not merely a welcome addition to a sparse secondary literature, but instead] offers cohesive, intriguing views of Liszt as a man of the theatre, of his symphonic poems as works of astonishing ambition and breadth and of his pivotal position as an innovator in the tradition of nineteenth-century orchestral music.’ Paul Bertagnolli, Nineteenth-Century Music Review
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- Date Published: September 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316632642
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 243 x 169 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 11 tables 77 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Liszt's activities as Kapellmeister
2. From the lyric to the dramatic: the development of Tasso
3. Prometheus, melodramatic mimesis, and the visual
4. Orpheus, opera and Werktreue
5. Formal innovation and dramatic gesutre in Festklänge
6. Hamlet and melodrama
7. Liszt's Weimar legacy.-
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