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" Chopin's Polish ballade : "
Jonathan D. Bellman.
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BL
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1006262
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b760632
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| Main Entry
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Bellman, Jonathan,1957-
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Chopin's Polish ballade : : op. 38 as narrative of national martyrdom /\ Jonathan D. Bellman.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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xvi, 197 pages :: music ;; 25 cm
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0195338863
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: 9780195338867
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index.
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| Contents
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Two versions, two keys, and "certain poems of Mickiewicz" -- Genesis of a narrative process -- Hearing Konrad Wallenrod : the first ballade, op. 23 -- Op. 38 and the genre issue -- The Polish pilgrims and the operatic imperative -- Martyrdom and exile : the narrative of Chopin's F major ballade.
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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 for amateurs, author Jonathan Bellman traces a clear narrative thread to contemporary French operas. His careful historical exegesis of previously ignored musical and cultural contexts brings to light a host of new insights about this remarkable piece, which, as Bellman shows, reflects the cultural preoccupations of the Polish emigres in mid-1830s Paris, pining with bitter nostalgia for a homeland now under Russian domination. This vital connection to the extramusical culture of its day forms the basis for a plausible relationship with the nationalistic poetry of Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade also solves the long-standing conundrum of the two extant versions of the Ballade, making an important point about the flexible notion of "work" that Chopin embraced [Publisher description].
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Chopin, Frédéric,1810-1849., Ballades,piano.
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Chopin, Frédéric., Ballade, Klavier op. 38.
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Ballades (Instrumental music)-- History and criticism.
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Piano music-- History and criticism.
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Ballades (Instrumental music)
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Piano music.
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Ballades (Chopin, Frédéric)
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| Dewey Classification
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786.2/1896
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ML410.C54B22 2010
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786.2189623
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J657.41(513)clc
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