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The Music of Chopin

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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. The early chapters deal mainly with the sources and the characteristic profile of Chopin's musical style, relating his music to a wider context in social and stylistic history. Later
chapters look rather at the structure of his music and how it functions, with many examples highlighting the discussion.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: March 24, 1994

ISBN: 0198164025

ISBN 13: 9780198164029

The Music of Chopin

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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. The early chapters deal mainly with the sources and the characteristic profile of Chopin's musical style, relating his music to a wider context in social and stylistic history. Later
chapters look rather at the structure of his music and how it functions, with many examples highlighting the discussion.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: March 24, 1994

ISBN: 0198164025

ISBN 13: 9780198164029

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