Liszt's Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano - Colors in Black and White

Examines Liszt's piano arrangements of music originally created for other instruments, especially the symphony orchestra and the Hungarian Gypsy band.

List of contents

Introduction
Approaching the Reproductive Arts
"Partitions de Piano"
Between "Text" and "Event": Liszt's Guillaume Tell Overture
Translating the Orchestra: Liszt's Two-Piano Arrangements of His Symphonic Poems
Interpretive Fidelity to Gypsy Creativity: Representations of Hungarian-Gypsy Cimbalom Playing
Conclusions: Recurring Techniques and Aesthetics
Appendix: Liszt's Preface to his Piano Arrangements of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in the Breitkopf & Härtel's edition, 1840
Bibliography

About the author

Hyun Joo Kim

Summary

Examines Liszt's piano arrangements of music originally created for other instruments, especially the symphony orchestra and the Hungarian Gypsy band.

Product details

• Authors: Hyun Joo Kim, Hyun Joo (Customer) Kim
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781580469463
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-946-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology; Ungarn, Romantik, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Komponisten und Songwriter, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie