DISTURBING FANTASIES

LOGIC OF MEANING AND SOUND LOGIC IN LISZT’S FANTASIES ON OPERA THEMES

Authors

  • Bruno Moyson IReMus (CNRS-Paris Sorbonne University)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2446-7006.47v28n01.66318

Keywords:

Liszt’s fantasies, operas, music and meaning, narrative journey

Abstract

By their nature, Liszt’s fantaisies on operatic themes appear as an ideal object for anyone wishing to explore the relationship between music and meaning. Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Halévy’s La Juive or Bellini’s Norma reappear, through the magic of the Lisztian piano, in the form of a purely sonic narrative journey. After having evoked the way in which Liszt conceives the relationship to meaning in his fantasies on operatic themes as well as in what will be, after 1848, program music, the present contribution will endeavor to show how much a certain number of he semiotic approaches of the 1990s and 2000s that were too centered on the question of communication proved to be of little help for those who tried to reveal the deep mechanisms of this strange object which claims to endow the sound of the piano with textual, visual, dramaturgical and orchestral aspects of the opera.

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Published

2023-04-01

How to Cite

Moyson, B. (2023). DISTURBING FANTASIES: LOGIC OF MEANING AND SOUND LOGIC IN LISZT’S FANTASIES ON OPERA THEMES. Acta Semiotica Et Lingvistica, 28(01), 101–116. https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2446-7006.47v28n01.66318

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