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). It is also a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general because 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.
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"First and most obviously, this is a landmark study of an important group of works and the genre to which they belong, both of which continue to enjoy substantial popularity and a problematic reception. Second, Samson has offered a beautifully crafted model for a critical, contextual, cultural, and above all musical musicological study; as its subject is a body of Liszt etudes, so it is a study of nineteenth-century etuding. It is to be hoped that it is broadly influential in our discipline, because the balances it finds are rarely reached with this kind of elegance." Notes
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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.
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In 1827, when Liszt was sixteen years old, a volume of twelve exercises, almost certainly composed in the early months of the previous year, was published by Boisselot in Marseilles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
douze exercices, later recompositions, eleventh etude, fifth etude, maroon ink, seventh etude, third etude, heroic affect, fourth etude, idiomatic figures, chromatic symmetries, second etude, inflected repetitions, sixth etudes, hexatonic systems, semitonal relationships, tonal reprise, virtuoso years, other etudes, later etudes, virtuoso tradition, virtuoso music, climactic variation, genre markers, seventh exercise Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grandes Etudes, Franz Liszt, New York, Victor Hugo, Wilde Jagd, Neue Zeitschrift, Carl Dahlhaus, Alan Walker, Charles Rosen, Gesammelte Schriften, Robert Hatten, The Essence of Music, Constance Bache, Paganini Etudes, Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century, Carl Czerny, Franz Brendel, Jim Samson, Short Studies, Susan Bernstein, Dies Irae, Leonard Ratner, Lina Ramann, Michael Saffle, Peter Raabe New!
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In 1827, when Liszt was sixteen years old, a volume of twelve exercises, almost certainly composed in the early months of the previous year, was published by Boisselot in Marseilles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
douze exercices, later recompositions, eleventh etude, fifth etude, maroon ink, seventh etude, third etude, heroic affect, fourth etude, idiomatic figures, chromatic symmetries, second etude, inflected repetitions, sixth etudes, hexatonic systems, semitonal relationships, tonal reprise, virtuoso years, other etudes, later etudes, virtuoso tradition, virtuoso music, climactic variation, genre markers, seventh exercise Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grandes Etudes, Franz Liszt, New York, Victor Hugo, Wilde Jagd, Neue Zeitschrift, Carl Dahlhaus, Alan Walker, Charles Rosen, Gesammelte Schriften, Robert Hatten, The Essence of Music, Constance Bache, Paganini Etudes, Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century, Carl Czerny, Franz Brendel, Jim Samson, Short Studies, Susan Bernstein, Dies Irae, Leonard Ratner, Lina Ramann, Michael Saffle, Peter Raabe New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Franz Liszt by Alan Walker on 7 pages
- Paganini Etudes (Kalmus Edition) by Franz Liszt on 6 pages
- The Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt (Franz Liszt Studies Series) by Keith T. Johns on 6 pages
- Prose Works (8 Volumes) (Music Book Index) by Richard Wagner on 6 pages
- The Romantic Generation (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen on 5 pages
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- Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music by Neil Lerner in Back Matter
- Musicology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by David Beard in Back Matter
- Franz Liszt and His World (Bard Music Festival) by Christopher H. Gibbs on page 107
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