Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition

by Shay Loya

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463231
• ISBN13: 9781580463232
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"