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The Ballades of Frederic Chopin
<p>The four Ballades of Chopin occupy a unique position within his output and in the repertory of keyboard music. Although Chopin was not the only composer to utilize the form, he is credited as being the first to adapt the ballade to the piano. His efforts resulted in the creation of a unique type …
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Chopin and Poe: Rhythmical Creators of Beauty
Beauty is a state of being in which one is raised above time and place, lifted out of the stream of life and freed from the practical demands of living. Man has a need for beauty which art serves. Beauty is born in the soul of the artist and materially incarnated through one of the seven media of …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… and journeying in select works from authors Kate Chopin to Cormac McCarthy whose writing frames a period of just over one hundred years, in order to discern if the cultural myth of the pastoral shifts or remains static. This is achieved by highlighting the contrast between the expectations and …
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New Consciousness in Kate Chopin's Women
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Analysis and expressive performance : four selected works by Chopin
<p>In this dissertation, I examine four works by Chopin and address issues of expressive performance derived from principles of the nineteenth-century Swiss theorist, Mathis Lussy (1828-1910). Lussy’s systematic approach into the understanding and organization of the individual phrase in relation …
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Tonal and Formal Structure in Selected Larger Works of Chopin
… and performance interpretation of three large Chopin solo works: the Ballade Op. 38, the Fantaisie Op. 49, and the Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61, each of which is characterized by rather unusual tonal and/or formal structures. Analysis of Chopin's larger works according to Schenker's theories has …
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Structural analysis of the Chopin Etudes as prerequisite to physical practice
… to understand the musical structure of a Chopin etude in its broader and finer detail. The analytical procedure also supports thorough investigation into Chopin's interpretative indications. The study is geared towards the pianist with a mature technique who will realise that visual …
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Reading In Vogue: The Function of Fashion in Three Chopin Short Stories
… been done with the nineteen short stories Kate Chopin published in the magazine between 1893-1900. Vogue was not known for literary acclaim and did not pay very much to its fiction authors. Considering that Chopin was writing for a living, this paper aims to explain why she so persistently …
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Integrating Piano Technique, Physiology, and Motor Learning: Strategies for Performing the Chopin Etudes
Chopin's twenty-seven études are both unique and standard within the genre of advanced piano literature. Having been composed as the instrument itself was standardized and on the heels of the didactic studies of the classical period, Chopin's études are widely heralded as exemplary pedagogical …
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Rhythmic Nuance in Chopin Performances Recorded by Moriz Rosenthal, Ignazfriedman, and Ignaz Jan Paderewski
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A study of the Chopin Etudes, op. 25, with performance suggestions for technical and musical issues
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A Comparison of the Styles of Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny, and Chopin as Seen in Hexaméron
… Pixis, Henri Herz, Carl Czerny and Frédéric Chopin, fulfilling a commission by the Princess Christina Belgiojoso, hostess of a Parisian salon. The work took the form of a set of variations, with the theme selected from the duet "Suoni la tromba" from Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Puritani. Each …
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Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities.
Academically, Chopin's two visits to Britain in 1837 and 1848 remain unexplored. This thesis aims to rectify this, using extensive published and manuscript material in Edinburgh, London, Paris, Cracow and Warsaw, and topographical and other illustrations. On the first of Chopin's visits, in July …
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CHOPIN IN BRITAIN Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 People, places, and activities
Academically, Chopin's two visits to Britain in 1837 and 1848 remain unexplored. This thesis aims to rectify this, using extensive published and manuscript material in Edinburgh, London, Paris, Cracow and Warsaw, and topographical and other illustrations. On the first of Chopin's visits, in July …
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A comparison of two sets of variations on Chopin’s Prelude op. 28, no. 20 in C minor: Ferruccio Busoni’s Ten Variations on a Theme by Chopin, BV 213a and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin, op. 22
… two sets of variations that use Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude, op. 28, no. 20 as a theme: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Chopin, op. 22 (1902-1903) and Ferruccio Busoni’s Ten Variations on a Prelude by Chopin, BV 213a (1922). The first primary goal of this paper is to provide a …
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