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Zusatztext This book is highly recommendable to performers and music students alike Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Bellman, a pianist and musicologist, earned his doctorate at Stanford University and is now Professor and Head of Academic Studies in Music at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published articles in a variety of musicology journals. His primary research interests include nineteenth-century musical style and performance practices, especially involving Frederic Chopin and musical exoticism. Klappentext Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration. Zusammenfassung Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Musical Examples Introduction 1.: Two Versions, Two Keys, and Certain Poems of Mickiewicz Two Versions Two Keys "Certain Poems of Mickiewicz" 2.: Genesis of a Narrative Process Stories in Tones Amateur Program Music Ballad Poetry and Musical Form 3.: Hearing Konrad Wallenrod: Chopin's Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 Overview and Stylistic Summary of the First Ballade Konrad Wallenrod: Plot and Structure Konrad Wallenrod as Ballade Scenario The Lay of Aldona's Fate 4.: Op. 38 and the Genre Issue A Formal Overview of Chopin's Second Ballade The Second Ballade and the Sonata Problem Ballade as Genre The Operatic Ballade to 1831 5.: The Polish Pilgrims and the Operatic Imperative A Pilgrims' Ballade; A Polish Ballade The Great Migration and Polish Culture in Exile Personal Anguish and Literary Apotheosis Sapienti Pauca 6.: Martyrdom and Exile: The Narrative of Chopin's F Major Ballade Internal Evidence I-The A Material: Siciliano Internal Evidence II-The B Material: Storm Internal Evidence III-The C Theme Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom Versions, Tonic Keys, and Mickiewicz Revisited The Forest and the Trees Appendix: "À M. F. Chopin, sur sa Ballade Polonaise," by Félicien Mallefille. Bibliography Index ...
