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, ar...

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.