Chopin's Polish Ballade Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 November 2009
- ISBN 9780195338867
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 236x157x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 black and white line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration.
MoreLong description:
Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood--disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade is a reexamination and close analysis of this famous work, revealing the Ballade as a piece with a powerful political story to tell.
Through the general musical styles and specific references in the Ballade, which use both operatic strategies and approaches developed in programmatic piano pieces for amateurs, author Jonathan Bellman traces a clear narrative thread to contemporary French operas. His careful historical exegesis of previously ignored musical and cultural contexts brings to light a host of new insights about this remarkable piece, which, as Bellman shows, reflects the cultural preoccupations of the Polish émigrés in mid-1830s Paris, pining with bitter nostalgia for a homeland now under Russian domination. This vital connection to the extramusical culture of its day forms the basis for a plausible relationship with the nationalistic poetry of Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade also solves the long-standing conundrum of the two extant versions of the Ballade, making an important point about the flexible notion of "work" that Chopin embraced.
his connections with present performance concerns are also compelling ... the book is a welcome invitation to reconsider what approaches we might take to performing and listening to this music today.
Table of Contents:
List of Musical Examples
Introduction
Two Versions, Two Keys, and Certain Poems of Mickiewicz
Two Versions
Two Keys
"Certain Poems of Mickiewicz"
Genesis of a Narrative Process
Stories in Tones
Amateur Program Music
Ballad Poetry and Musical Form
Hearing Konrad Wallenrod: Chopin's Ballade No. 1, Op. 23
Overview and Stylistic Summary of the First Ballade
Konrad Wallenrod: Plot and Structure
Konrad Wallenrod as Ballade Scenario
The Lay of Aldona's Fate
Op. 38 and the Genre Issue
A Formal Overview of Chopin's Second Ballade
The Second Ballade and the Sonata Problem
Ballade as Genre
The Operatic Ballade to 1831
The Polish Pilgrims and the Operatic Imperative
A Pilgrims' Ballade; A Polish Ballade
The Great Migration and Polish Culture in Exile
Personal Anguish and Literary Apotheosis
Sapienti Pauca
Martyrdom and Exile: The Narrative of Chopin's F Major Ballade
Internal Evidence I-The A Material: Siciliano
Internal Evidence II-The B Material: Storm
Internal Evidence III-The C Theme
Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom
Versions, Tonic Keys, and Mickiewicz Revisited
The Forest and the Trees
Appendix: "À M. F. Chopin, sur sa Ballade Polonaise," by Félicien Mallefille.
Bibliography
Index
