Chopin : a listener's guide to the master of the piano /
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| Language: | English |
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Pompton Plains, N.J. :
Amadeus Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Chopin's brief life and long death
- Big ideas in small packages: the etudes and preludes
- The music for piano and orchestra
- Dance idealized: the waltzes
- Operatic reveries: the nocturnes
- The sonatas
- Patriotism and tragedy: the polonaises
- The individual works
- Lyricism and drama in fixed forms: the impromptus and scherzos
- The mazurkas
- The ballades
- The importance of Chopin.