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Book SynopsisChopin's oeuvre holds a secure place in the nineteenth-century repertoire, beloved by audiences, performers and aesthetes. In Harmony in Chopin, David Damschroder integrates Schenkerian structural analyses with his innovative perspective on harmony to analyse the composer's works and provide a new way to examine and understand their compositional style.
Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Methodological Orientation: The Mazurkas: 1. The architecture of a tonic pillar: twenty-seven regular tonic pillars from the mazurkas; 2. Between the tonic pillars: tonal trajectories in twenty-seven mazurkas; 3. Irregular pillars in the mazurkas: alternatives to the perfect authentic cadence; Part II. Masterpieces: 4. Étude in C Minor, op. 10, no. 12, in response to Graham H. Phipps; 5. Nocturne in C# Minor (op. 27, no. 1), in response to Felix Salzer; 6. Preludes in E Major and E Minor (op. 28, nos. 9 and 4), in response to Fred Lerdahl; 7. Prelude in G Minor (op. 28, no. 22), in response to Alison Hood; 8. Prelude in C# Minor (op. 45), in response to Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger and to Charles J. Smith; 9. Ballade in F Minor (op. 52), in response to Edward Laufer; 10. Barcarolle in F# Major (op. 60), in response to John Rink.
