Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition

Name: Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition
Brand: University of Rochester Press
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By Shay Loya

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Some of Franz Liszt's most renowned pieces -- most famously his Hungarian Rhapsodies -- are written in a nineteenth-century Hungarian style known as verbunkos. Closely associated with the virtuosic playing tradition of the Hungarian-Gypsy band, the meaning and uses of this style in Liszt's music have been widely taken for granted and presented as straightforward. Taking a novel transcultural approach to nineteenth-century modernism, Shay Loya presents a series of critiques and sensitive music analyses that demonstrate how the verbunkos idiom, rich and artful in itself, interacted in myriad ways with Liszt's multiple cultural identities, compositional techniques, and modernist aesthetics. Even supposedly familiar works such as the Rhapsodies emerge in a new light, and more startlingly, we find out how the idiom inhabits and shapes works that bear no outward marks of nationality or ethnicity. Particularly surprising is its role in the famously enigmatic compositions of Liszt's old age, such as Nuages gris and Bagatelle sans tonalité.
Shay Loya teaches at the University of Durham and is a board member of the Society for Music Analysis (UK).

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 362
Release Date:: 2011-12-01
Publication Date:: 2011-12-01
Publisher:: University of Rochester Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1580463231
ISBN13:: 9781580463232
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 675 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 2.4 cm

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