Le 30 juin 2017
de 15h00 à 15h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3206
Séance précomposée - Liszt after Liszt - Liszt après Liszt
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Antonio Grande
A special feature of Liszt’s compositional technique is his interest on repeating the same structure with small transformations in which one or more notes are smoothly shifted. The neo-riemannian approach appears particularly suitable to capture this technique of minimal inflections of notes: Weitzmann’s regions or other neo-riemannian cycles are typical examples.
On these basis my talk will examine some specific developments of lisztian compositional aspects, particularly with regard to Scriabin’s music. Some technical devices will be examined: smooth transitions in middleground between different forms of triads or sevenths; different materials (as hexatonal 6-35 or nearly octatonic pc sets) devided by an intermediate area (as in R. W. Venezia).
Similarly Scriabin – whose affinity to Liszt has been recognized for a long time – in some late works manages several instances of pc-set 7-34 thought of as intermediate element between 6th- and 8ve-order symmetrical scales. Other techniques are: transitions from 6-34 and 6-35 sets, or cases of switching between forms close to even prototypes, etc. This technique may be referred of as a device in which even structures are inclined to tarnish becoming less perfect as a consequence of short shiftings.
Furthermore it can be variously referred to several aspects of nineteenth-century musical techniques and analytical devices (minimal offset in J. Straus, DOUTH Functions in D. Lewin, SST-Succession Classes in B. Derfler).
