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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRYDERYK CHOPIN’S AND JOHN FIELD’S NOCTURNES
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRYDERYK CHOPIN’S AND JOHN FIELD’S NOCTURNES

Author(s): Tímea Szilveszter
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: John Field; Fryderyk Chopin; nocturne; formal structure; tonality; ornaments; comparative analysis;

Summary/Abstract: Music History holds John Field as the creator of the nocturne genre. The purpose of this work is to reveal the formal, tonal and stylistic features that prove the influence of the Irish composer on Fryderyk Chopin's compositions of the same genre.

  • Issue Year: 64/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 331-364
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: English