Liszt and Virtuosity

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Liszt and Virtuosity

Edited by: Robert Doran
With contributions by: David Keep , Dolores Pesce , Jim Samson , Jonathan Dunsby , Jonathan Kregor , Kenneth Hamilton , Nicolas Dufetel , Olivia Sham , Ralph P Locke , Robert Doran and Shay Loya

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 168 | Eastman Studies in Music

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A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

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Doran Robert :

ROBERT DORAN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Music Theory Departmentat the Eastman School of Music.Doran Robert :

ROBERT DORAN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Music Theory Departmentat the Eastman School of Music.

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Doran has organized the collected articles thoughtfully. The early chapters help to prepare for the later chapters [so] the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. [The chapters] work together to impart a clarified understanding of Liszt's attitudes towards difficulty in piano music.

There is a lot to think about in this volume. It is dense and rich, well researched, and thoughtful. Perhaps it is virtuosic in its own way, with its apparent casual command of fine detail. This is the kind of collection where single lines might spark new scholarship.

This splendid volume dispels any lingering prejudices against nineteenth-century piano virtuosity and especially against Franz Liszt--often suspected of practicing a musical dark art. By casting new light on Liszt's singular virtuosity in essays on his instruments, technique, and teaching through to his revolutionary compositional aesthetic, the internationally distinguished authorship aspires to a level of understanding no less transformational than the work of the spectacular figure at center stage.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEWS:
The book brings together these insights by the world's most important Liszt's scholars and performers. [...] [This book] deepen[s] our understanding of the concept of virtuosity and of different approaches [and] re-evaluates virtuosity, specifically its given definitions and practices, through Liszt's own understanding in connection to his contemporaries

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Robert Doran Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt Robert Doran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Liszt, Virtuosity, and Performance
Chapter One. Après une Lecture de Czerny? Liszt’s Creative Virtuosity Kenneth Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter Two. Transforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos Olivia Sham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter Three. Spirit and Mechanism: Liszt’s Early Piano Technique and Teaching Nicolas Dufetel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter Four. Paths through the Lisztian Ossia Jonathan Kregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Chapter Five. Brahms “versus” Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity David Keep Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Part Two. Lisztian Virtuosity: Theoretical Approaches
Chapter Six. The Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History Jim Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter Seven. Liszt’s Symbiosis: The Question of Virtuosity and the Concerto Arrangement of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy Jonathan Dunsby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Chapter Eight. From the Brilliant Style to the Bravura Style: Reconceptualizing Lisztian Virtuosity Robert Doran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Part Three. Virtuosity and Anti-virtuosity in “Late Liszt”
Chapter Nine. Harmony, Gesture, and Virtuosity in Liszt’s Revisions: Shaping the Affective Journeys of the Cypress Pieces from Années de pèlerinage 3 Dolores Pesce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Chapter Ten. Anti-Virtuosity and Musical Experimentalism: Liszt, Marie Jaëll, Debussy, and Others Ralph P. Locke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
Chapter Eleven. Virtuosity in Liszt’s Late Piano Works Shay Loya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Index of Liszt’s Musical Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423

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July 27, 2020

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9781787448667

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University of Rochester Press

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446

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787448667

eBook ISBN: 9781787448667

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Liszt; virtuosity; essays; leading scholars; practices; musical force; piano aesthetic; technical feats; experimental; music history; genres; music analysis; intellectual history; performance studies

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