The Parisian worlds of Frédéric Chopin / by Atwood, William G., 1932-2011

Table of Contents: “…: coping with poultices, purges, and the Parisian medical profession -- Visions of a better world: searching for utopia from Menilmontant to the Rue Vanneau -- The big shadow of the little corporal: Napoléon becomes a legend -- Epilogue: obituary and funeral of Frédéric Chopin -- Appendix. The Paris residence of Frédéric Chopin.…”
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Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music / by Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970-, Roudet, Jeanne, Bartoli, Jean-Pierre, Seaton, Douglass, Mossburger, Hubert

Table of Contents: “…Playing with images : character and emotion in the age of romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli -- "Inner voices' and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Moßburger -- Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet -- Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli -- Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton -- Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / Hubert Moßburger.…”
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Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music / by Mossburger, Hubert, Seaton, Douglass, Roudet, Jeanne, Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Playing with images : character and emotion in the Age of Romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli -- "Inner voices" and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Mossburger -- Frederic Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet -- Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli -- Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton -- Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / personalia / Hubert Mossburger.…”
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Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…The weight of society -- Freedom and art -- Culture on the market -- The future of music -- The canon -- Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas -- Mozart's entry into the twentieth century -- The triumph of Mozart -- Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos -- Mozart and posterity -- Structural dissonance and the classical sonata -- Tradition without convention -- Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer -- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! -- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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Schirmer scores : a repertory of western music /

Table of Contents: “…Dances, useful and ornamental -- Saltarello / Anonymous, 14th century -- La mourisque / Tielman Susato -- Pavane la bataille / Tielman Susato -- Monsiers Almaine / Anonymous, 16th century -- Monsiers Almaine for lute / Daniel Batchelor -- Suite no. 1 in G major / Henry Purcell -- French suite no. 6 in E major / Johann Sebastian Bach -- "Dance of the blessed spirits" from Orphée et Eurydice / Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Three waltzes from Opus 9 / Franz Schubert -- Polonaise in C♯ minor, op. 26, no. 1 / Frédéric Chopin -- Waltz in C♯ minor, op. 64, no. 2 / Frédéric Chopin -- The entertainer / Scott Joplin -- "Introduction" and "Dance of the adolescents" from The rite of spring / Igor Stravinsky.…”