Harmony in Chopin

Chopin''s oeuvre holds a secure place in the repertoire beloved by audiences performers and aesthetes. In Harmony in Chopin David Damschroder offers a new way to examine and understand Chopin''s compositional style integrating Schenkerian structural analyses with an innovative perspective on harmony and further developing ideas and methods put forward in his earlier books Thinking about Harmony (Cambridge 2008) Harmony in Schubert (Cambridge 2010) and Harmony in Haydn and Mozart (Cambridge 2012). Reinvigorating and enhancing some of the central components of analytical practice this study explores notions such as assertion chordal evolution (surge) collision dominant emulation unfurling and wobble through analyses of all forty-three Mazurkas Chopin published during his lifetime. Damschroder also integrates analyses of eight major works by Chopin with detailed commentary on the contrasting perspectives of other prominent Chopin analysts. This provocative and richly detailed book will help transform readers'' own analytical approaches.