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Literacki kontekst dzieła muzycznego
Literary context of music composition

Chopin’s ballad vs. Scriabin’s poem

Author(s): Agnieszka Sozańska-Ławniczak
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Studies of Literature, Comparative history, Social history, Modern Age, 19th Century, Sociology of Art
Published by: Koło Naukowe Studentów Muzykologii UJ
Keywords: Chopin, Scriabin; ballade; narrative poem; intertextuality

Summary/Abstract: The following article describes a phenomenon of the correspondence of arts using the works of Frederic Chopin and Alexander Scriabin as an example. The author is interested in the relations between music and literature and Chopin’s ballads and Scriabin’s piano poems, the genres, which are an effect of such relations. The analysis of those works shows that both composers have a different understanding of the essence of music and literature but there are also similarities. The ballads and poems do not convey a literary programme or music illustration but their sound matter is additionally complemented by the genre category, title or commentary instead.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 01 (28)
  • Page Range: 68-79
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish