Hearing “les plaintes de la Pologne”: impressions of a nationalist narrative in selected nocturnes of Frédéric Chopin.

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dc.contributor.authorMcGregor, Jennifer Lauren
dc.contributor.supervisorFillion, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-13T18:58:51Z
dc.date.available2011-04-13T18:58:51Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-04-13
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Music
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts MAen_US
dc.description.abstractChopin’s artistic philosophies were heavily indebted to his love of vocal music and his staunch belief that vocal expression represented the supreme essence of musical declamation. To his contemporaries in the Parisian salons, his veneration of the vocal ideal illuminated the expressive significance of Chopin’s musical language. Influenced by the dramatic function of operatic and vocal works, and by interpretive trends that associated literary programs with instrumental (textless) music, Chopin’s contemporaries searched for concealed narratives within his piano nocturnes. This thesis considers the narrative function of Chopin’s late nocturnes within the sociopolitical and musical culture of the Parisian salons, and utilizes a modern approach to narratology that resonates with a prominent facet of historical interpretation. The study reveals a specific reception in which audiences, influenced by the philosophies of Polish messianism, heard national narratives, sung pronouncements of his Polish nationality, and political support for the Polish nation in Chopin’s nocturnes.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3241
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectChopin, Frédéricen_US
dc.subjectPolish cultureen_US
dc.subjectFrench Romanticismen_US
dc.subjectMusical narrativeen_US
dc.subjectMessianismen_US
dc.subjectNocturnes, pianoen_US
dc.subjectNocturnes, vocalen_US
dc.subjectParis, 1840sen_US
dc.subjectParisian salons, 1840sen_US
dc.titleHearing “les plaintes de la Pologne”: impressions of a nationalist narrative in selected nocturnes of Frédéric Chopin.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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