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Jonathan Bellman, Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). xvi+197 pp. $40.00

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Jonathan Bellman, Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). xvi+197 pp. $40.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2011

Halina Goldberg
Halina Goldberg*
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Mahler: Centenary Commentaries on Musical Meaning , 24 November 2011 , pp. 284 - 288
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2 For extended discussion of Chopin's Polish literary context see Goldberg, Halina, Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4 See my chapter ‘“Remembering that tale of grief”: The Prophetic Voice in Chopin's Music’, in The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, ed. Halina Goldberg (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004): 54–92.

5 See my articles ‘Chopin's Late Fantasy Pieces in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Fantasy Genres’, in Chopin's Musical Worlds: the 1840s, ed. Artur Szklener (Warsaw: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 2007): 157–68, and ‘Nationality and Narrative in Polish Fantasias of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’ in Topos narodowy w muzyce polskiej pierwszej połowy XIX wieku, ed. Wojciech Nowik (Warsaw: Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina, 2006): 275–96.

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10 I explored this topic at length in ‘Remembering that tale of grief’.

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