Ballads Without Words: Chopin and the Tradition of the Instrumental BalladeIn his four ballads for piano, Chopin stretched the capacity of instrumental music by asking it to convey, without words, the form and sense of a ballad, a challenge taken up by composers, who developed the orchestral ballad. |
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List of Plates | 7 |
Introduction | 17 |
The Ballad as Narrative Model for Chopin | 29 |
Copyright | |
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Allegro Andante Antonín Antonín Dvořák ballad process Bartók bass Brahms Bülow Bürger's cadence century CHAPTER character Chopin CHOPIN'S BALLADE FORM Chopin's Ballades Chopin's first Ballade chord chromatic co-theme composers CONCERTO Czech dramatic Dukas Dvořák edition episode Erben's Europe European Example Fauré folk music folk-song four Ballades Franck Gabriel Fauré genre Grieg harmonic heard instrumental ballade Janáček Klavierballade later Leipzig Leoš Janáček Liszt literary ballads lyrical main theme major melody meter middle section minor moderato motive movement musical form narration nineteenth-century Novák opening orchestral ballades passage Paul Dukas phrase piano ballades piano pieces poco Polish Prague primary theme published reckoning repertory repetition represents rhythm Robert Schumanns Schumann Second Ballade secondary theme SLAVIC EUROPE Smetana sonata form song stanza story structure suggest symphonic poem Tchaikovsky tempo texture thematic transformation title Ballade tone variation verse Vítězslav Novák voice Wagner Water Goblin words wrote Zdeněk Fibich