"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. / Department of Musicology / M.Mus.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/17503 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Moodie, Noreen Charlotte |
| Contributors | Geldenhuys, J. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (134 leaves) |
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