The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries
- Editor: Goldberg, Halina
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Contents
- PREFACE
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: "Chopin Then and Now: A Fantasy" Daniel Stone
- PART I. Memories, Images, and Dreams
- 1. "Chopin at Home" Bozena Shallcross
- 2. "Delacroix's Portrait of Chopin as a Surrogate Self-Portrait" John Nici
- 3. "The Monument of Fryderyk Chopin: Concepts and Reality" Waldemar Okon
- 4. "'Remembering that tale of grief': The Prophetic Voice in Chopin's Music" Halina Goldberg
- PART II. Analytical Perspectives
- 5. "Idiosyncrasies of Phrase Rhythm in Chopin's Mazurkas" Carl Schachter
- 6. "Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Waltz" Eric McKee
- 7. "Chopiniana and Music's Contextual Allusions" Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
- PART III. Gender, Genre, Genius
- 8. "'Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour': Poetry, Song, and the Voice in the Piano Nocturne" James Parakilas
- 9. "Gender and Genius in Post-revolutionary France: Chopin and Sand" Whitney Walton
- PART IV. Chopin Appropriated
- 10. "Chopin Reception as Reflected in Nineteenth-Century Polish Periodicals: General Remarks" Zofia Chechlinska
- 11. "The Polish Reception of Chopin's Biography by Franz Liszt" Irena Poniatowska
- 12. "Chopin and the 'Polish Race': On National Ideologies and Chopin Reception" Maja Trochimczyk
- 13. "'A composer known here but to few': Reception and Performance Styles of Chopin's Music in America, 1839-1900" Sandra P. Rosenblum
- Contributors
- Index
