Franz Liszt's songs for voice and piano : : : the composer's approach to poetry and music / / by Malgorzata Gamrat ; translated by Tomasz Zymer.

• VerfasserIn: Gamrat, Małgorzata,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zymer, Tomasz,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Word and Music Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 390 pages).

"How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt's songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt's songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer's broadly understood song-writing technique - both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer's workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Musical Examples -- Introduction -- 1 Liszt and the Song Genre -- 2 Sources and Challenges -- 3 Scholarly Research -- 4 The Methodology -- 5 About this Book -- Part 1 Words -- 1 The Role of Literary Quotations in Franz Liszt's Statements -- 1 The Artist's Personal Notes -- 2 Liszt's Correspondence -- 2 Linguistic Diversity in Franz Liszt's Songs -- 1 The Languages of Liszt's Songs -- 2 Liszt and the Tongues He Used -- 3 "Go Not, Happy Day": a Special Case -- 3 Franz Liszt's Poets and Their Texts -- 1 Challenges and Authors' Names -- 2 Liszt's Relations with Poets -- 3 Text Sources -- 4 The topoi of Franz Liszt's Songs -- 4 The Composer's Work with the Poetic Text -- 1 Before a Song was Written… -- 2 The Texts in Song Scores -- Part 2 Music -- 5 Word-and-Music Interrelations in Franz Liszt's Songs -- 1 Intermedial Relations I: Text and Music -- 2 Intermedial Relation II: Voice and Piano -- 3 Interrelations between Songs -- 6 Hybridity in Franz Liszt's Songs -- 1 The Art Song and Hybridity in Romantic Art -- 2 Hybrids in Liszt's Songs -- 2.1 Merging Genres -- 2.2 Fusing Performance Styles and Techniques -- 2.3 Old Forms in Nineteenth-Century Songs and Liszt's Other Concepts -- 2.4 Between Song and the Theatrical Stage -- 7 The Art Song and the Opera -- 1 Liszt and the Opera -- 2 Operatic Elements I: Manner of Performance -- 3 Operatic Elements II: Song Construction -- 4 Song, the Opera, and What Came Next -- 8 Cyclicity in Franz Liszt's Songs -- 1 Cyclicity in Musical-Literary Studies -- 2 Cyclicity in Poetry and Music in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 3 Franz Liszt's Concept of the Song Cycle -- 3.1 An Artistic Experiment: Buch der Lieder -- 3.2 Between a Cycle and a Collection: Sechs Lieder and Drei Gedichte von Goethe.

3.3 Between the Operatic Stage and a Song Cycle: Drei Lieder aus Schillers Wilhelm Tell -- 3.4 A Megacycle or Another Experiment: Drei Lieder and Tre Sonetti di Petrarca -- 3.5 An Unfinished Opus: Muttergottes-Sträußlein zum Mai-Monate -- 9 Liszt's Work on the Musical Settings of Songs -- 1 Different Visions of One Song -- 1.1 Liszt's Quest for the Best Manner of Text Interpretation -- 1.2 Alternative Song Versions -- 1.3 Song Versions in Different Languages, Keys, and for Different Performing Forces -- 2 Gesammelte Lieder and Other Song Revisions -- 3 "Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth": a Special Case -- Some Final Remarks -- Appendix 1: A Catalogue of Songs by Franz Liszt -- Appendix 2: Texts of Franz Liszt's Songs -- Appendix 3: Sources of and for Franz Liszt's Songs -- 1 Sheet Music -- 1.1 Sheet Music I: Manuscripts -- 1.2 Sheet Music II: Printed Works -- 2 Franz Liszt's Writings -- 3 Correspondence -- 4 Literary Texts -- References -- Index -- Word and Music Studies.