The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

by Jim Samson (Editor)

Overview

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139815147
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/08/1994
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Music
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 MB
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Table of Contents

Chronology; Myth and reality: a biographical introduction; Part I. 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; Part II. 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; Part III. Reception: 9. Chopin in performance James Methuen-Campbell; 10. Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland Zofia Chechlinska; 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.

Editorial Reviews

"...each article rewards careful reading, and the whole book forms a praiseworthy contribution to the analytical literature on Chopin." Notes

"Not just another series of collected essays about Chopin, these 12 pieces were obviously put together with a great amount of care and expertise....Highly recommended for all music collections...." Choice

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