Contents
Introduction
I: What Is Ragtime?
II: Ragtime in Liszt's Age
III: Music of the 19th Century In America
IV: Liszt: The Virtuoso Musician of the Salons
V: The American Liszt: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
VI: Liszt's pupils and contemporaries in America
VII: Liszt and European romanticism in American music education
VIII: Liszt and ragtime regarding piano technique and harmonization
IX: Popularity of Liszt's works in America - piano rolls
What became a hit?
X: European masters in ragtime and swing
XI: The national character of Liszt’s music
National music in America, exotic features in ragtime and jazz
XII: Liszt and the opera - ragtime and jazz examples
XIII: From ragtime to swing - progress in music and society
XIV: Progressive features in Liszt’s late art
XV: How Liszt, Chopin, Debussy and Ravel influenced swing
XVI: Symphonic poems - Philosophy and religion expressed in music
XVII: Liszt and Bartók
XVIII: Liszt as a predecessor of modern jazz - building on fourths
XIX: Did Liszt influence 20th century music through jazz?
XX: Who if not Liszt?
XXI: Epilogue
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