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Liszt's songs : a reflection of the man and a microcosm of his musical style

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dc.contributor.advisor Geldenhuys, J.
dc.contributor.author Moodie, Noreen Charlotte en
dc.date.accessioned 2015-01-23T04:23:54Z
dc.date.available 2015-01-23T04:23:54Z
dc.date.issued 1996-11 en
dc.identifier.citation Moodie, Noreen Charlotte (1996) Liszt's songs : a reflection of the man and a microcosm of his musical style, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17503> en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17503
dc.description.abstract "Liszt's music, unlike that of Mozart, projects the man. With rare immediacy, it gives away the character of the composer. ... " (Brendel 1986, 3) The purpose of this study is to examine Liszt's song genre from an historical and stylistic standpoint as a reflection of Liszt's ongoing personality and style development. this end the following will be presented: - an overview of Liszt's life circumstances which reflect his personality development - a chronological classification ofLiszt's song genre - the songs viewed historically as a reflection of the man - characteristics in the revisions of the songs which reveal Liszt's ongoing developing style - a study of the development ofLiszt's harmonic and tonal language as agents of colour and textual imagery. Liszt's song oeuvre will be studied in relation to the man himself in order to revtal his motives, his values, the experiences that moved him, and the ways in which he reproduced them in music.
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (134 leaves) en
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject Liszt's songs
dc.subject Chronological classification
dc.subject Historical perspective
dc.subject Character of each song
dc.subject Revisions
dc.subject Ossia passages
dc.subject Style development
dc.subject Tone painting
dc.subject Harmonic features
dc.subject Tonal development
dc.subject.ddc 784.300924 en
dc.subject.lcsh Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Songs en
dc.subject.lcsh Songs -- Analysis en
dc.title Liszt's songs : a reflection of the man and a microcosm of his musical style en
dc.type Dissertation
dc.description.department Department of Musicology
dc.description.degree M.Mus. en


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