Music of Chopin

Samson, Jim

ISBN 10: 0710096887 / ISBN 13: 9780710096883

Editore: Routledge Kegan & Paul, London, 1985

Companions To The Great Composers; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages. Codice articolo 091480

Riassunto:

The lasting popularity of Chopin's music has reached "from salon to slum" He captured and expressed the spirit of the age of Romanticism, its ardour and idealism, its longing and restlessness, its love of spontaneity, with an authority his contemporaries immediately recognized and which successive generations have admired and loved. Much of the Chopin literature in English is biographical, but this book is a critical study of the music itself and of the creative process which is central to the life of any composer. Samson provides a detailed analysis of the style and structure of the music in the light of recent Chopin scholarship on the one hand and recent analytical methods on the other. The early chapters deal mainly with the sources and the characteristic profile of Chopin's musical style, relating his music to a wider context in social and stylistic history. Later chapters look rather at the structure of his music and how it functions, with many examples highlighting the discussion.

L'autore: Author of numerous books on Chopin and one of the foremost Chopin scholars in the world, Jim Samson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Exeter.

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Titolo: Music of Chopin
Casa editrice: Routledge Kegan & Paul, London
Data di pubblicazione: 1985
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good