In 1949, Frederic Dard created a character named San-Antonio and he decided to dedicate a series of novels to it. The latter amounts to, up to this day, one hundred and sixty eight titles, to which we must add several outside the series. How can we explain the readers, craze for such works? A possible explanation resides in the quite particular style which distinguishes them. There are any number of neologisms and various styles and levels of language are merrily mixed therein, reminding us of the Rabelaisian tongue to which it is often compared. But shall we end the parallel between San-Antonio and Rabelais solely at the level of linguistics? After reading Mikhail Bakhtine's study devoted to Francois Rabelais et carnivalesque literature, it seems that this comparison must be taken much further. The distance taken by San-Antonio toward the classic detective novel seem to indicate a strong level of carnivalisation and that is what we will study in this thesis.

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Die beiden hier vorgelegten Beiträge sind als Vorträge am 23. und 27. Februar 2010 gehalten worden. Anlass waren die Kongresse im Jubiläumsjahr zum 200. Geburtstag von Frédéric Chopin an der Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina Warszawa und der Uniwersytet Warszawski zusammen mit der Polska Akademia Chopinowska. Sie werden hier beide in deutscher Sprache im Vorgriff auf die Tagungsberichte zusammen veröffentlicht, da sie einen gewissen inneren Zusammenhang aufweisen, der bei getrennter Publikation verloren geht.:Vorbemerkung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Schumann und Chopin – noch einmal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chopin im Spiegel der Briefe Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys . . . . . . 17

by Fung Wai Man Eric. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-119). / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- SCHENKER'S VIEWS ON PERFORMANCE --- p.9 / Chapter 3 --- SCHENKERIAN ANALYSIS APPLIED TO PERFORMANCE --- p.32 / Chapter 4 --- THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF CHOPIN'S B MINOR SONATA --- p.70 / CONCLUSION --- p.109 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.114 / APPENDIXES --- p.120

Frédéric Chopin produced a remarkable body of piano works. Even though most of his works are essential repertoire in piano literature, some of them remain less familiar. One such significant work is the Allegro de Concert in A major, op. 46, which was apparently intended to be the first movement of a third piano concerto. Despite the praise the work has received, it is rarely heard, and references to performance are lacking in the scholarly literature. Some reasons include the substantial technical challenges, such as risky skips, trills in double notes, thick harmonic textures, complex passagework, and the perpetual motion. This study provides a performance guide for the Allegro de Concert, looking at various perspectives of an informed musical performance. The historical backstory of the intended third concerto and a detailed form analysis demonstrate that the work has a combined form, incorporating elements of both concerto and sonata-allegro form. The chapter on performance presents the technical issues and a comparative analysis of various editions and arrangements of this work to inspire musical ideas and suggest appropriate solutions to the musical and technical difficulties.

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Cette étude cible la reconstitution de la collection du marchand amateur Frédéric Spitzer, avec son milieu social, culturel, politique dans une perspective qui était européenne au XIXe siècle et qui est aujourd’hui devenue globalisée et participative. Vendue aux enchères en 1893, cette collection constitua un cas exemplaire parmi les collections de son époque, caractérisée par des liens très étroits entre collection, étude, nouvelle production d’objets d’art, communication et divulgation. Forcément abordé selon une perspective multidisciplinaire et transnationale et des sources documentaires largement inédites, la microstoria de Spitzer a été réécrite dans le sillage de la multiple identité, de ses nombreux déplacements dans le cadre européen et de ses relations avec les principaux représentants du milieu culturel européen. Sa collection et les objets d’arts qui la composaient ont été ici étudiés avec leur scénario d’origine, c’est-à-dire l’hôtel particulier où ils étaient installés et les rites sociaux et la vie privée dans les salons de réception se prolongeaient dans les salles du musée, en affichant référence à l’esprit de la Renaissance italienne dans une sorte de Gesamtkunstwerk. Un inventaire raisonné a été finalement rédigé à fin de reconstituer l’unité d’origine de la collection et d’accéder d’une manière objective et consciente aux possibles lectures et interprétations du projet unitaire à vocation encyclopédique et taxonomique conçu par Frédéric Spitzer, en devenant un possible support pour la valorisation du patrimoine culturel et de la mémoire collective actuelle. / This study focus on the reconstruction of the collection of the art dealer Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), by reconsidering the role of his collection within the 19th century European frame and its meaning in the present culture within contemporary cultural dynamics at a global scale. Auctioned in 1893, his collection was considered an exemplar model of his era, marked by strong links between collection, studies, new production of art, communication and disclosure items. Reconsidered according to a multidisciplinary and a transnational perspective and based on unpublished documents, the Spitzer’s microstoria has been rewritten in the wake of his multiple identity, his European travels and his relations with the key figures of the European cultural world. His collection and his art’s objects have been studied here within their original frame, being on display in Spitzer’s mansion in Paris where social rites and private life in the reception rooms were extended into the museum, showing reference to the spirit of the Italian Renaissance in a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk. A reasoned inventory was finally compiled in order to rebuild the lost unity of the museum according to the Spitzer’s encyclopedic and taxonomic spirit in order to contribure and understand its complexity as a research support tool and as a device of information for the cultural heritage and the present mémoire collective.

Frederic Chopin's contemporaries took note of his preference for a piano with a light escapement. They commented that his method of playing was light in touch, and that his demeanor on stage contrasted strongly with that of other performers who were outwardly expressive. Although his performances enjoyed support from some members of his society, most contemporary commentators viewed his performances negatively. His performances were seen as deficient when they were contrasted with those of others, and especially those of Franz Liszt. Some of Chopin's contemporaries saw his playing as feminine and contrasted his works with those of Beethoven, whose works seemed to them to express masculinity. Negative assessments of Chopin's works also appear in later critical and musicological literature. In 1889, the music critic Henry T. Finck suggested that the desire of French, Polish, German and Viennese audiences for what he called "aesthetic jumboism" was detrimental to Chopin's popularity. It is my thesis that smallness has been, and often still is, associated with femininity and that those pianists and authors who advocated largeness - however defined (be it 'grand,' 'healthy,' 'forte,' or 'masculine') - were afraid that Chopin's refined pianism and the "small" aspects of his compositions might be used as evidence that Chopin was not strictly heterosexual. Largeness seems to have been linked in a number of ways to heroism, and it seems that smallness was seen consequently as lacking in heroism. Thus, musicians and musicologists have criticized his works for their lack of complexity and length and for the nature of their melodies, characteristics that I show to have been associated with both size and masculinity. For example, in 1986, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger analyzed Chopin's compositions in a way that seems to me to reveal Eigeldinger's own search for complex underlying forms. This search appears to be an attempt to illustrate that Chopin was intellectually 'heroic' because he could match the organic unification that some musicologists find in the works of other great composers. While the nineteenth-century development of the piano into a powerful concert instrument undoubtedly reflected the changing nature of concert venues and audiences, since recitals moved from the salon to the concert hall, the changes in design could also been seen as reflecting an ever-increasing desire for largeness. The forcefulness and consequent loudness with which Chopin's music was played on these larger pianos might well have caused (and could still be causing) some pianists' physical problems. Jeffrey Kallberg has analyzed an array of gender-oriented metaphors in relation to Chopin's possible gender-ambiguity, wishing to remove the veil of suspicion that surrounds smallness. It is my argument that a veil of suspicion is indispensable when analyzing the language that people have used to describe their experiences with music, because they have used language to express their preferences for certain kinds of experiences. Thus I attempt to show that during the hundred and fifty years since Chopin's death, both pianists' performance practices and musicological discourse have attempted to cleanse Chopin's music from its associations with smallness and, consequently, with femininity. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2004.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música, Programa de Pós-Graduação Música em Contexto, 2017. / Submitted by Raquel Viana (raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2018-08-23T17:57:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DianaDaherLopesdaCosta.pdf: 12193532 bytes, checksum: 6a743bb32992115e3c51518f0ea36ce9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana (raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2018-08-27T22:28:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DianaDaherLopesdaCosta.pdf: 12193532 bytes, checksum: 6a743bb32992115e3c51518f0ea36ce9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T22:28:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DianaDaherLopesdaCosta.pdf: 12193532 bytes, checksum: 6a743bb32992115e3c51518f0ea36ce9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-23 / O presente trabalho apresenta investigações sobre a ocorrência de texturas polifônicas na Sonata op. 35 n. 2 de Fryderyk Chopin, bem como estratégias de estudo que possam auxiliar na interpretação expressiva de tais texturas. Assim, esta dissertação estrutura-se em duas partes: a primeira apresenta diversas acepções sobre polifonia e, em seguida, aborda a forma em que a textura polifônica se encontra especificamente na obra de Chopin, à luz daquele contexto histórico e das diversas influências exercidas sobre o compositor. A segunda parte é composta pelos denominados “trechos polifônicos”, que são excertos escolhidos da Sonata op. 35, analisados e acompanhados de sugestões de estudos que visam o aprimoramento da execução polifônica. A pesquisa foi feita a partir da experiência de preparação para a performance da sonata e contempla a análise formal e interpretativa da obra, bem como a contextualização histórica da vida e obra de Chopin. Também são abordadas na pesquisa investigações musicológicas as quais vêm sendo feitas no sentido de elucidar aspectos polifônicos presentes ao longo de toda a produção chopiniana, bem como desvendar os principais fatos motivadores desta prática, quais sejam: a influência da música de Bach e o apreço de Chopin pela música vocal, especialmente o Bel Canto italiano, ao qual se atribui a presença dos diferentes caráteres ou vozes que compõem sua polifonia. / The present dissertation aims at investigating the occurrence of polyphonic textures in Fryderyk Chopin’s piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 35, as well as presenting study strategies that may aid in the expressive interpretation of such textures. Therefore, the present work is divided in two parts. The first one presents a myriad of interpretations on polyphony itself and then tackles the way polyphonic texture presents itself in Chopin’s works in light of the then-existing historical backdrop and the multitude of influences exerted upon the composer. The second part comprises the so-called “polyphonic stretches”, which are passages selected from Sonata Op. 35. These excerpts are analyzed and followed by study suggestions which aim at refining polyphonic execution. This research is rooted in the experience resulting from the author’s preparation for the execution of the sonata and encompasses the formal and interpretative analysis of this particular piece, as well as the historic contextualization of Chopin’s life and oeuvre. Musicological investigations are pursued throughout the research and they endeavor to clarify polyphonic aspects which are present in Chopin’s works, as well as unveil the main motivating factors behind such practice, namely Bach’s influence and Chopin’s own predilection for vocal music, most notably the Italian Bel Canto, to which different characters or voices that comprise his polyphony are attributed.

John Field (1782-1837), an Irishman, was the first composer to use the French term "nocturne," and was the inventor of the nocturne for piano. It can be seen with a glance at the scores that the orchestral notturni by the eighteenth century composers were very different than what is generally thought of today as a nocturne. Field introduced the idea of the nocturne that has remained much the same since. Frederic Chopin enlarged and improved the genre invented by Field, but it was Field's originality that brought this type of piece to piano literature. Indeed, John Field is hardly remembered today except as the inventor of the nocturne for the piano and for his influence on Chopin's Nocturnes. For that alone musicians will remain indebted to him.