Aspects of the Symbolic Content of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes on the Material of the As-dur and F-moll Etudes
The paper is devoted to consideration of “Transcendental Etudes” by F. Liszt. The main goal of the author is to identify stable symbolic musical forms for disclosing the philosophical concept of “transcendence” on the basis of two etudes from the cycle (A-fl at major and F minor, No. 9-10). The basic principles of constructing the cycle and the specifi city of its programmaticity are also considered in the context of the peculiarities of Liszt’s composer’s writing. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the techniques of musical recitation and rhetorical figures-symbols. The paper also touches upon the issues of the composer’s use of the semantics of tonality. The work is based on the method of holistic analysis of a piece of music and on the method of systematic generalization of scientifi c knowledge on the topic under study