Chopin Studies 2 [Paperback]

This second volume of Chopin essays contains Chopin research by twelve leading scholars.This second volume of Chopin essays contains Chopin research by twelve leading scholars. Three main topics are addressed: reception history, aesthetics and criticism, and performance studies. The essays explore Chopin as classical composer, modernist and androgyne.This second volume of Chopin essays contains Chopin research by twelve leading scholars. Three main topics are addressed: reception history, aesthetics and criticism, and performance studies. The essays explore Chopin as classical composer, modernist and androgyne.Following the success of Chopin Studies, this second volume of essays contains the most recent Chopin research of twelve leading scholars. Three main themes are addressed: reception history, aesthetics and criticism, and performance studies. The essays explore Chopin as classical composer, as salon composer, as modernist, as otherworldly, as androgyne, and define aspects of his musical language, including narrative structures, progressive tendencies and functional ambiguity.Preface; 1. Chopin reception: theory, history, analysis Jim Samson; 2. Chopin as 'salon composer' in nineteenth-century German criticism Andreas Ballstaedt; 3. Chopin as modernist in nineteenth-century Russia Anne Swartz; 4. Small fairy voices: sex, history and meaning in Chopin Jeffrey Kallberg; 5. Chopin's Ballade Op. 23 and the revolution of the intellectuals Karol Berger; 6. The Polonaise-Fantasy and issues of musical narrative Anthony Newcomb; 7. Placing Chopin: reflections on a compositional aesthetic Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger; 8. Ambiguity and reinterpretation in Chopin Edward T. Cone; 9. The Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4: autograph sources and interpretation Carl Schachter; 10. Performing the F# minor Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 L. Henry Shaffer; 11. Chopin's tempo rubato in context David Rowland; 12. Authentic Chopin: history, analysis and intuition in performance John Rink; Appendix: lG