Twelve Studies in Chopin

Maciej Gołąb is head of the Department of Musicology at the University of Wrocław. He specializes in 19th and 20th century music history and theory, Chopin studies and methodology of musicological research. He is editor of the series Eastern European Studies in Musicology and author of the monograph Musical Work Analysis. An Epistemological Debate (Frankfurt am Main 2008).

• Contents: Studies at the Main School of Music of the Royal University of Warsaw (1826-1829) – Teaching of Music Theory in Józef Elsner’s Class at the Royal University of Warsaw – On the Fragments of Music from the Last Sheet of the Autograph of the Trio in G Minor op. 8 – Stylistic Change: from Stile brillante to the Late ‘Synthetic Style’ – Harmony and Tonality – On the Tristan Chord – Contribution to Western European Romanticism – Imaginatio Crucis in the Last Song Melodia? – Polonaise: The Riddle of its Melodic Figure – Nineteenth-century Transcriptions of Masterworks – Nineteenth-century Transcriptions of the Polonaise in C sharp Minor op. 26 for Violin and Piano – On Jan Karłowicz’s Concept of Revolution in Musical Notation.