The age of Chopin:interdisciplinary inquiries

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Goldberg Halina, 1961-
Published: Indiana University Press,
Publisher Address: Bloomington, IN
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xii, 368 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0253343194 (alk. paper)
0253216281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: K835
CLC: K835.135.76
Call Number: K835.135.76/C549-1
Contents: "The present collection grew out of the interdisciplinary conference that took place at Indiana University-Bloomington during the 1999 sesquicentennial commemorations of Fryderyk Chopin's death"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Chopin then and now : a fantasy / Daniel Stone -- Memories, images, and dreams. Chopin at home / Boena Shallcross. Delacroix's portrait of Chopin as a surrogate self-portrait / John B. Nici. The monument of Fryderyk Chopin by Wacław Szymanowski : concepts and reality / Waldemar Oko. "Remembering that tale of grief" : the prophetic voice in Chopin's music / Halina Goldberg -- Analytical perspectives. Idiosyncrasies of phrase rhythm in Chopin's mazurkas / Carl Schachter. Dance and the music of Chopin : the waltz / Eric McKee. Chopiniana and music's contextual allusions / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert -- Gender, genre, genius. "Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour" : poetry, song, and the voice in the piano nocturne / James Parakilas. Gender and genius in postrevolutionary France : Chopin and Sand / Whitney Walton -- Chopin appropriated. Chopin's reception as reflected in nineteenth-century Polish periodicals : general remarks / Zofia Chechliska. The Polish reception of Chopin's biography by Franz Liszt / Irena Poniatowska. Chopin and the "Polish race" : on national ideologies and the Chopin reception / Maja Trochimczyk. "A composer known here but to few" : the reception and performance styles of Chopin's music in America, 1839-1900 / Sandra P. Rosenblum.