Chopin's Polish ballade : op. 38 as narrative of national martyrdom / Jonathan D. Bellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellman, Jonathan, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Ballades--piano.

Chopin, Frédéric.

Ballades (Instrumental music)--History and criticism.

Ballades (Instrumental music).

Piano music--History and criticism.

Piano music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood--disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade is a reexamination and close analysis of this famous work, revealing the Ballade as a piece with a powerful political story to tell. Through the general musical styles and specific references in the Ballade, which use both operatic strategies and approaches developed in programmatic piano pieces f

Contents:

Contents; List of Musical Examples; 1 Two Versions, Two Keys, and "Certain Poems of Mickiewicz"; Two Versions; Two Keys; "Certain Poems of Mickiewicz"; 2 Genesis of a Narrative Process; Stories in Tones; Amateur Program Music; Ballad Poetry and Musical Form; 3 Hearing Konrad Wallenrod: The First Ballade, Op.23; Overview and Stylistic Summary of the First Ballade; Konrad Wallenrod: Plot and Structure; Konrad Wallenrod as Ballade Scenario; The Lay of Aldona's Fate; 4 Op.38 and the Genre Issue; A Formal Overview of Chopin's Second Ballade; The Second Ballade and the Sonata Problem

Ballade as GenreThe Operatic Ballade to 1831; 5 The Polish Pilgrims and the Operatic Imperative; A Pilgrims' Ballade; a Polish Ballade; The Great Migration and Polish Culture in Exile; Personal Anguish and Literary Apotheosis; Sapienti Pauca; 6 Martyrdom and Exile: The Narrative of Chopin's F Major Ballade; Internal Evidence I-the A Material: Siciliano; Internal Evidence II-the B Material: Storm; Internal Evidence III-the C Theme; Chopin's Second Ballade as Narrative of National Martyrdom; Versions, Tonic Keys, and Mickiewicz Revisited; The Forest and the Trees

Appendix: "A M. F. Chopin, sur sa Ballade polonaise,"Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-988760-8

9786612328763

0-19-971342-1

1-282-32876-X

OCLC:

472467646