Fryderyk Chopin in popular instrumental music

• Authors: Jakub Kasperski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The author considers whether Fryderyk Chopin and his oeuvre may be regarded as part of popular culture - and if so, to what extent. However, the text is mostly taken up with analysis of popular instrumental music inspired by Chopin’s works in various ways: from simple quotation, adaptation and transcription to more sophisticated instrumentation and arrangement, free improvisation or even the creation of a completely new work derived from a single motif or sample from Chopin. Consequently, the author deals with the problem of reception, but also with the issue of transculturation and the relationship between high and popular culture. The article shows and describes the variety of Chopin inspiration in a wide range of styles and genres of popular music, such as rock music, easy-listening, electronic music, dance music and disco.

Keywords

PL

Fryderyk Chopin; popular culture; popular music; instrumental music; rock music; electronic music; inspiration; reception

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 357-370

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Jakub Kasperski

• PhD student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 20052006, he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris as an Erasmus-Socrates student. In 2006, he received his MA for a thesis on French requiems o f the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At present, he is implementing a project financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education concerning popular music studies in musicology.