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The study is geared towards the pianist with a mature technique who will realise that visual analysis can also benefit technical execution. Three etudes of contrasting nature and content - Op.25, No.2 and Op.10, Nos.12 and 4 - are analysed. The analyses concentrate on the characteristic elements of form, melody, and harmony. The synthesis of these structural elements with interpretative detail attempts to provide the performer with an ideal interpretation of each work. iv Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated, and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner. In them is mirrored all of Chopin, the planetary as well as the secular Chopin. When most of his piano music has gone the way of all things fashioned by mortal hands, these studies will endure, will stand for the nineteenth century, as Beethoven crystallised the eighteenth and Bach the seventeenth centuries in piano music. 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The synthesis of these structural elements with interpretative detail attempts to provide the performer with an ideal interpretation of each work. iv Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated, and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner. In them is mirrored all of Chopin, the planetary as well as the secular Chopin. When most of his piano music has gone the way of all things fashioned by mortal hands, these studies will endure, will stand for the nineteenth century, as Beethoven crystallised the eighteenth and Bach the seventeenth centuries in piano music. 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