Music of Chopin

Name: Music of Chopin
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ISBN: 9780198164029

ISBN-10: 0198164025

ISBN-13: 9780198164029

Edition: 1994

Authors: Jim Samson

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The lasting popularity of Chopin's music has reached "from salon to slum." He captured and expressed the spirit of the age of Romanticism, its ardour and idealism, its longing and restlessness, its love of spontaneity, with an authority his contemporaries immediately recognized and which successive generations have admired and loved. Much of the Chopin literature in English is biographical, but this book is a critical study of the music itself and of the creative process which is central to the life of any composer. Samson provides a detailed analysis of the style and structure of the music in the light of recent Chopin scholarship on the one hand and recent analytical methods on the other.…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/24/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968

Jim Samson is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.



List of Plates


Acknowledgements


Prologue



A biographical sketch



Apprenticeship



Stile brillante



Baroque reflections



Bel canto



The spirit of Poland



Salons



German dialogues



The preludes revisited



Scherzos



Ballades



Fantasies


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


List of Works


Index