Variations and Variation Technique in the Music of Chopin

Name: Variations and Variation Technique in the Music of Chopin
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his works. Multiple modified repetitions of musical units on different levels of a work are so typical of Chopin\u2019s works that this may be considered one of the chief determinants of his style. Focusing on a broad range of Chopin\u2019s works, this book explores the extent to which Chopin\u2019s oeuvre is suffused with variations, the role that variation technique plays in his work, to what extent it interacts with other techniques for developing and modifying musical material, and how the variation technique itself evolved. Beginning with a comprehensively documented investigation of the concept of variation in its own right, Zofia Chechli\u0144ska employs Riemannian and Schenkerian theory to consider, in turn, the ways in which Chopin constructs variations on the level of microstructure (motif and phrase) and macrostructure (thematic areas, sections, movem.