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Informationen zum Autor Halina Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. Her research centers on the musical and cultural environment of Chopin's Warsaw, performance practice issues, questions of reception, and the musical, social, and political creation of national constructs. Klappentext Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history. Zusammenfassung Leading international scholars uncover the political, social and aesthetic backdrop to Chopin's life and works Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
