The Cambridge companion to Chopin /
This Companion is designed to provide the enquiring music lover with helpful insights into a musical style that recognizes no contradictions between the accessible and the sophisticated, between the popular and the significant. - Publisher.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to music.
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Table of Contents:
- Chronology
- Myth and reality : a biographical introduction
- pt. 1. The growth of a style
- 1. Piano music and the public concert 1800-1850 / Janet Ritterman
- 2. The nocturne : development of a new style / David Rowland
- 3. The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents / Simon Finlow
- 4. Tonal architecture in the early music / John Rink
- pt. 2. Profiles of the music
- 5. Extended forms : the ballades, scherzos and fantasies / Jim Samson
- 6. Small 'forms' : in defence of the prelude / Jeffrey Kallberg
- 7. Beyond the dance / Adrian Thomas
- 8. The sonatas / Anatole Leikin
- pt. 3. Reception
- 9. Chopin in performance / James Methuen-Campbell
- 10. Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland / Zofia Chechlińska
- 11. Victorian attitudes to Chopin / Derek Carew
- 12. Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond / Roy Howat
- appendix. A historical survey of Chopin on disc / James Methuen-Campbell
- Notes
- List of Chopin's works
- Bibliographical note
- Index.