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- Title
Expressing the Inexpressible: The Issue of Improvisation and the European Fascination with Gypsy Music in the 19th Century.
- Authors
Piotrowska, Anna G.
- Abstract
Improvisation as a musical phenomenon has been described from various points of views and angles. Most authors concentrating on the historical perspective underline the steady growth of its popularity in the European artistic music and the decline by the mid of the 19th century. At the same time, when improvising became relegated from artistic music, the (re)discovery of Gypsy music in European culture took place and the figure of Gypsy virtuoso substituted the professional musician - a virtuoso as a great improviser. The key role in this process can be assigned to Franz Liszt as a composer, performer and an author who wrote influential book on Gypsy music. Hence in this article I will claim that the refusal of performers to improvise (publicly) in the second half of the 19th century was, inter alia, indirectly connected with the romantic fascination with exotic cultures and especially with Gypsy music.
- Subjects
MUSIC improvisation; ROMANI music; ROMANI musicians; MUSIC &; culture; LISZT, Franz, 1811-1886
- Publication
International Review of the Aesthetics & Sociology of Music, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 2, p325
- ISSN
0351-5796
- Publication type
Article