Interpreting Chopin : analysis and performance / Alison Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Alison (Musician), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Preludes--piano--op. 28.

Chopin, Frédéric.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Nocturnes--piano--op. 48.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Nocturnes--piano--op. 27.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Barcarolle--piano--op. 60--F♯ major.

Piano music--Analysis, appreciation.

Piano music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alison Hood combines significant aspects of current analytical approaches and applies that unique synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. The specific combination of five aspects distinguishes Hood's method from previous analytical approaches. These five methods are attention to the rhythms created by pitch events on all structural levels; a detailed accounting of the musical surface; 'strict use' of analytical notation; a continual concern with 'strategies' or 'premises'; and an exploration of how recorded performances might be viewed in terms of analytical decisions, or might even shap

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Music Examples; Foreword by Robert S. Hatten; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Revealing the hidden dimensions; Part I Introduction; 1 Rhythm; 2 Foreground Emphasis; 3 Strict Use; 4 Strategy/Premise; 5 Dialogue with Performance; Part I Conclusion; Part II Preludes op. 28; Part II Introduction; 6 A Comparative Review of Analytical Approaches: Prelude No. 5; 7 Phrase Structure and Metric Ambiguity: Prelude No. 12; 8 Tonal and Rhythmic Hidden Repetition in Prelude No. 14; 9 Contour and Flux: Prelude No. 16; 10 Figuration in Prelude No. 21

11 Ambiguity of Tonal Meaning: Prelude No. 22 Part II Conclusion; Part III Nocturnes; Part III Introduction; 12 Shared Compositional Strategies in Chopin's Nocturnes Op. 48; 13 Intra-opus Connections in Chopin's Nocturnes Op. 27; Part III Conclusion; Part IV The Barcarolle; 14 Structural Coupling in the Coda of Chopin's Barcarolle; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"An Ashgate book."

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-11358-6

1-317-11359-4

1-315-58958-3

1-4094-5210-7

9781315589589

OCLC:

871776192