The Music of Chopin [Paperback]

Jim Samson (Author)

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Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Reprint edition (April 30 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198164025
ISBN-13: 978-0198164029
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 494 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,090,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #92 in Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Scores > Composers > Chopin

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`A work of impressive scholarship ... The writing is vigorous and lucid.' Music Teacher

`This is the first serious study of Chopin's oeuvre to appear in English; thus it fills a real need, and it will probably remain a standard reference work for some years to come.' Music Analysis

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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. Professor Jim 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars About this Book..., Oct 23 2010

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This review is from: The Music of Chopin (Paperback)

This review is for the newer edition, the 1994 trade paperback from Oxford.

243 pp, illustrations (music) throughout, 13 pp of narrative and bibliographic End Notes, a 4 p Bibliography, an index.

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