Chopin and His World
Chopin and His World
Editors: Bellman, Jonathan D. and Goldberg, Halina
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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$35.00

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$52.50
ISBN: 978-0-691-17776-2
Category: Arts & Leisure - Music
Image Count:
99
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction - Halina Goldberg and Jonathan D. Bellman
- Part I: Contemporary Cultural Contexts
- Chopin's Oneiric Soundscapes and the Role of Dreams in Romantic Culture - Halina Goldberg
- Józef Sikorski's “Recollection of Chopin”: The Earliest Essay on Chopin and His Music - Translated by John Comber, Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg
- Chopin and the Gothic - Anatole Leikin
- Revisiting Chopin's Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making - David Kasunic
- Chopin and Jews - Jeffrey Kallberg
- Part II: Musical and Pianistic Contexts
- Middlebrow Becomes Transcendent: The Popular Roots of Chopin's Musical Language - Jonathan D. Bellman
- Karol Kurpiński on the Musical Expression of Polish National Sentiment - Translated by John Comber, Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg
- Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Polonaise - Eric Mckee
- The Barcarolle and the Barcarolle: Topic and Genre in Chopin - James Parakilas
- Chopin and Improvisation - John Rink
- Chopin Among the Pianists in Paris - Sandra P. Rosenblum
- The Hand of Chopin: Documents and Commentary - Jean-Jaques Eigeldinger, Translated by Virginia E. Whealton
- Afterward: Chopin and the Consequences of Exile - Leon Botstein