The age of Chopin : interdisciplinary inquiries / Halina Goldberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldberg, Halina, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849--Congresses.

Chopin, Frédéric.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.

Music--Poland--19th century--Congresses.

Music.

Poland.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 368 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction : Chopin then and now : a fantasy / Daniel Stone

Memories, images, and dreams.

Chopin at home / Boena Shallcross.

Delacroix's portrait of Chopin as a surrogate self-portrait / John B. Nici.

The monument of Fryderyk Chopin by Wacław Szymanowski : concepts and reality / Waldemar Oko.

"Remembering that tale of grief" : the prophetic voice in Chopin's music / Halina Goldberg

Analytical perspectives.

Idiosyncrasies of phrase rhythm in Chopin's mazurkas / Carl Schachter.

Dance and the music of Chopin : the waltz / Eric McKee. Chopiniana and music's contextual allusions / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert

Gender, genre, genius.

"Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour" : poetry, song, and the voice in the piano nocturne / James Parakilas.

Gender and genius in postrevolutionary France : Chopin and Sand / Whitney Walton

Chopin appropriated.

Chopin's reception as reflected in nineteenth-century Polish periodicals : general remarks / Zofia Chechliska.

The Polish reception of Chopin's biography by Franz Liszt / Irena Poniatowska.

Chopin and the "Polish race" : on national ideologies and the Chopin reception / Maja Trochimczyk.

"A composer known here but to few" : the reception and performance styles of Chopin's music in America, 1839-1900 / Sandra P. Rosenblum.

Notes:

"The present collection grew out of the interdisciplinary conference that took place at Indiana University-Bloomington during the 1999 sesquicentennial commemorations of Fryderyk Chopin's death"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253343194

0253216281

OCLC:

52471661