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Musicophilia is a Chopin mazurka recital of a book, fast, inventive and weirdly beautiful . . . Yet what is most awe-inspiring is his observational empathy.” — The American Scholar
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. In this New York...
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May 6, 2016 · Chopin’s fifty-seven mazurkas form one of the greatest collections of piano literature – some say the greatest. Soulful, witty, and often dramatic, they can be experienced in a multiplicity of ways: as a diary of Chopin’s life; as his laboratory for compositional ideas; as a testimony to Polish culture and his elegant improvisation. Most ...
Apr 3, 2008 · Although he takes Greg the Lost Hippie (from An Anthropologist on Mars) to a Grateful Dead concert, the examples of his “strange tales” run more along the lines of Albinoni's “Adagio,” Bach's “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,” and Chopin's “Mazurkas.”
The Mazurkas, Op. 6 are Frédéric Chopin 's first set of mazurkas published during his lifetime. They were composed in 1830–1831 and were published in 1832. The set was dedicated to Grafin Pauline Plater.
Jul 31, 2015 · These 58 published mazurkas are an important facet of Chopin’s work and career, tying him to his homeland, and are perhaps the most personal or close-to-his-heart works in his oeuvre. His op. 5 from yesterday was a rondo a la mazur, and the work from earlier today is a set of four unrelated mazurkas published together.
Chopin’s mazurkas were not the traditional Polish mazurka, but much more refined, including compositional techniques such as counterpoint and fugue. He also made them more interesting harmonically and added more chromaticism.
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The Mazurka, or mazurek, originated in the Polish region of Mazrovia, near Warsaw, a dance in triple time, with an emphasis on the second or third beat. The true folk origins of the Mazurka are two other Polish musical forms, the slow, plaintive Kujawiak and the fast, lively Oberek .
