Polish music and Chopin, its laureate / Ethel Rayson ... with four illustrations.

Author/creator Rayson, Ethel
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : W. Reeves, [1916]
Descriptionviii, 64 pages : illustrations (music) 4 portrait (including frontispiece) ; 20 x 15 cm
Subjects

Contents Chapter I. Earliest compositions ; Musicians and men of letters of sixteenth century ; Gomolka, the Palestrina of the north ; The character of Polish folk-music ; National traits in Chopin's compositions ; His intercourse with the peasants -- Chapter II. Chopin's unique position ; The evolution of polish opera ; Stanislaus Poniatowski as patron of the drama ; The activity of Joseph Elsner -- Chapter III. Chopin in his student days ; The centenary festival ; "Chants Polonais" ; Polish colony in Paris ; Comparison between the work of Mickiewicz, Charles G. D. Roberts and Lampman -- Chapter IV. Some distinguished teachers ; Paderewski and Stojowski ; Great Britain and Poland ; The origin of the Polonaise ; The visions that accompanied the creation of Chopin's great A flat Polonaise.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 17011130

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML306.R19 P6 1916 ✔ Available Place Hold