Ballads without words

Titel: Ballads without words : Chopin and the tradition of the instrumental "ballade" / James Parakilas
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Veröffentlicht: Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, 1992
Umfang: 358 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0931340470
Lokale Klassifikation: 2 C 26 ; 32 9 H ; 1 9 H

In 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.