The music of the Netherlands Antilles : why eleven Antilleans knelt before Chopin's heart / Jan Brokken ; translated by Scott Rollins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brokken, Jan, author.

Contributor:

Rollins, Scott, 1952- translator.

Series:

Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)

Caribbean studies series

Standardized Title:

Waarom elf Antillianen knielden voor het hart van Chopin. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Netherlands Antilles--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is not your usual music handbook. The book's curious sub-title refers to the presence of eleven Antilleans at the service held in the Warsaw church to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin's death in October 1999 where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, whilst the rest of his mortal remains lie in Paris. The item which Brokken had read in a German newspaper triggered him to start writing the book based on notes he had been taking while living on Curacao from 1993 to 2002.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Translator's Note; 1. A Polish Prelude; 2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can't You?; 3. The Faintest Idea; 4. Geniuses of the Right Hand; 5. A Port of Transit; 6. As Melancholic as a Sunset; 7. Which One of the Three?; 8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me; 9. The Virtuoso Nomad; 10. An Island of Defaulters; 11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather; 12. A Wrong Modulation; 13. The Palms; 14. Your Tempi!; 15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread; 16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes; 17. Shon May and Shon Max; 18. Sensuous Movement; 19. Max and the Shark; 20. The Rebels

21. The New Woman 22. Curfew; 23. My Sister the Negress; 24. Spy; 25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos; 26. Music Everywhere; 27. Chick Corea; 28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber; 29. Mazurka Erotika; 30. The Tumba Queen; 31. End of an Era; 32. Bal Colonial; 33. The Pilgrimage; 34. The Trade Wind in My Ears; 35. The Bastard Son; Glossary; Sources and Bibliography; Discography; Index;

Notes:

Originally published: Waarom elf Antillianen knielden voor het hart van Chopin / Jan Brokken. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, ©2005.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62674-091-7

OCLC:

879852014