Chopin at the Boundaries

Jeffrey Kallberg is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Preface I. Ideology, Sex, and the Piano Miniature The Rhetoric of Genre: Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne Small Fairy Voices: Sex, History, and Meaning in Chopin II. Social Constructions and the Compositional Process Chopin's Last Style Small "Forms": In Defense of the Prelude III. The Musical Work as Social Process Chopin in the Marketplace The Chopin "Problem": Simultaneous Variants and Alternate Versions Notes Credits Index

Chopin at the Boundaries aim[s] 'to expose and partially recover aspects of Chopin's style perceived in his day to be marginal or foreign, but which today's listeners have transformed or repressed.' In this respect and in others, [it] succeed[s] brilliantly; Kallberg's scholarship is consistently of the highest caliber, his research meticulous and exhaustive, his arguments engaging.