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Revising Hamlet: the Symphonic Poem in the Theatre

Cormac, Joanne (2013) Revising Hamlet: the Symphonic Poem in the Theatre. Studia Musicologica, 54 (1). pp. 35-48. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

Hamlet, the last of Liszt’s Weimar symphonic poems, stands out from the others in the sheer detail of its references to the text of Shakespeare’s play. This paper considers how Liszt revised the symphonic poems in order to tighten the relationship between music and drama against the context of his encounter with a renowned and innovative Shakespearian actor, Bogumil Dawison. It demonstrates that the revisions made to Hamlet concerned incorporating extra ’scenes’ from the play using techniques associated with incidental music. Liszt also added programmatic instructions directly related to Dawison’s portrayal. All of this allows us to reconsider the position of Hamlet within the symphonic poems, as a forerunner to the highly programmatic Two Episodes from Lenau’s Faust and the melodramas that Liszt would compose immediately afterwards.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music / zene, szövegkönyvek, kották > M1 Music / zene
M Music and Books on Music / zene, szövegkönyvek, kották > M1 Music / zene > M10 Theory and philosophy of music / zeneelmélet, muzikológia
Depositing User: xAnikó xZsoldos
Date Deposited: 04 May 2017 15:29
Last Modified: 04 May 2017 15:29
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/52444

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