基本説明
Fourteen original essays by internationally known scholars suggest new connections between Chopin's compositions and the intellectual, literary, artistic, and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris.
Full Description
This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections between his compositions and the intellectual, literary, artistic, and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris. Individual essays consider representations of Chopin in the visual arts; reception in the United States and in Poland; analytical aspects of the mazurkas and waltzes; and political, literary, and gender aspects of Chopin's music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.
Contents
PREFACE
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: "Chopin Then and Now: A Fantasy" Daniel Stone
PART I. Memories, Images, and Dreams
1. "Chopin at Home" Bozena Shallcross
2. "Delacroix's Portrait of Chopin as a Surrogate Self-Portrait" John Nici
3. "The Monument of Fryderyk Chopin: Concepts and Reality" Waldemar Okon
4. "'Remembering that tale of grief': The Prophetic Voice in Chopin's Music" Halina Goldberg
PART II. Analytical Perspectives
5. "Idiosyncrasies of Phrase Rhythm in Chopin's Mazurkas" Carl Schachter
6. "Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Waltz" Eric McKee
7. "Chopiniana and Music's Contextual Allusions" Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
PART III. Gender, Genre, Genius
8. "'Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour': Poetry, Song, and the Voice in the Piano Nocturne" James Parakilas
9. "Gender and Genius in Post-revolutionary France: Chopin and Sand" Whitney Walton
PART IV. Chopin Appropriated
10. "Chopin Reception as Reflected in Nineteenth-Century Polish Periodicals: General Remarks" Zofia Chechlinska
11. "The Polish Reception of Chopin's Biography by Franz Liszt" Irena Poniatowska
12. "Chopin and the 'Polish Race': On National Ideologies and Chopin Reception" Maja Trochimczyk
13. "'A composer known here but to few': Reception and Performance Styles of Chopin's Music in America, 1839-1900" Sandra P. Rosenblum
Contributors
Index
