19th-Century Music
Adam Mickiewicz
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Ballades (Chopin)
Balladyna (drama)
Baroque music
Berceuse (Chopin)
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Chromatic scale
Circle of fifths
Composer
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Dies Irae
Duchy of Warsaw
Dziady (poem)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Euripides
Fantasy on Polish Airs (Chopin)
Feudalism
Fortepiano
Franz Liszt
Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Funeral march
Genre
George Sand
Goethe's Faust
Gothic fiction
Graveyard poets
Gustav Mahler
Hector Berlioz
Improvisation
Johann Sebastian Bach
Julian Fontana
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Krakowiak
La sonnambula
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Louis Adam
Ludwig van Beethoven
Marquis de Custine
Mazurka
Mazurkas (Chopin)
Music history
Musical language
Musical theatre
Musicology
Nocturne in C-sharp minor (attributed to Chopin)
November Uprising
Octave
Ornament (music)
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Pan Tadeusz
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Piano
Poetry
Polish language
Polish literature
Polish opera
Polish songs (Chopin)
Polonaise
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Prussia
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Quarter note
Revue et gazette musicale de Paris
Richard Strauss
Robert Schumann
Romanticism
Rondo in C minor (Chopin)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Singing
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Sonata in B minor (Liszt)
Song of the Bell
The Ballade
Waltz in A minor (Chopin)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691177762
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2017
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to the martyrdom of his beloved homeland, exiled among friendly but uncomprehending strangers; the sorcerer-bard of dream, memory, and Gothic terror; and the pianist's pianist, shunning the appreciative crowds yet composing and improvising idealized operas, scenes, dances, and narratives in the shadow of virtuoso-idol Franz Liszt. The international Chopin scholars gathered here demonstrate the ways in which Chopin responded to and was understood to exemplify these narratives, as an artist of his own time and one who transcended it.
This collection also offers recently rediscovered artistic representations of his hands (with analysis), and--for the first time in English--an extended tribute to Chopin published in Poland upon his death and contemporary Polish writings contextualizing Chopin's compositional strategies. The contributors are Jonathan D. Bellman, Leon Botstein, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Halina Goldberg, Jeffrey Kallberg, David Kasunic, Anatole Leikin, Eric McKee, James Parakilas, John Rink, and Sandra P. Rosenblum. Contemporary documents by Karol Kurpi?ski, Adam Mickiewicz, and Jozef Sikorski are included.
Jonathan D. Bellman is professor of music history and literature and head of academic studies in music at the University of Northern Colorado. Halina Goldberg is professor of musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and affiliate of the Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Polish Studies Center, and Russian and East European Institute.
