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Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
Joanne Cormac
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Description for Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
hardcover. A fresh evaluation of Liszt's symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: AVH. Dimension: 247 x 174. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107181410
SKU
V9781107181410
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Ref
99-12
About Joanne Cormac
Joanne Cormac is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include genre, reception and identity in nineteenth-century music and she is currently working on a project on reception issues in multimedia composer biography. Her work has been published in a number of leading music journals.
Reviews for Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
'... 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 ... Read more