Harmony in Chopin

Chopin's oeuvre holds a secure place in the repertoire, beloved by audiences, performers, and aesthetes. In Harmony in Chopin, David Damschroder offers a new way to examine and understand Chopin's compositional style, integrating Schenkerian structural analyses with an innovative perspective on harmony and further developing ideas and methods put forward in his earlier books Thinking about Harmony, Harmony in Schubert, and Harmony in Haydn and Mozart. Reinvigorating and enhancing some of the central components of analytical practice, this study explores notions such as assertion, chordal evolution (surge), collision, dominant emulation, unfurling, and wobble through analyses of all forty-three Mazurkas Chopin published during his lifetime. Damschroder also integrates analyses of eight major works by Chopin with detailed commentary on the contrasting perspectives of other prominent Chopin analysts. This provocative and richly detailed book will help transform readers' own analytical approaches [Publisher description].

Methodological orientation : the mazurkas. The architecture of a tonic pillar : twenty-seven regular tonic pillars from the mazurkas ; Between the tonic pillars : tonal trajectories in twenty-seven mazurkas ; Irregular pillars in the mazurkas : alternatives to the perfect authentic cadence -- Masterpieces. Etude in C minor, op. 10, no. 12 in response to Graham H. Phipps ; Nocturne in C♯ minor (op. 27, no. 1) in response to Felix Salzer ; Preludes in E major and E minor (op. 28, nos. 9 and 4) in response to Fred Lerdahl ; Prelude in G minor (op. 28, no. 22) in response to Alison Hood ; Prelude in C♯ minor (op. 45) in response to Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger and to Charles J. Smith ; Ballade in F minor (op. 52) in response to Edward Laufer ; Barcarolle in F♯ major (op. 60) in response to John Rink.