Musical Offerings, Spring 2026

Musical Offerings ⦁ 2026 ⦁ Volume 17 ⦁ Number 1 31 man without a nation expressed his deep longings for a free Polish homeland that he would never truly experience. His music gave a glimpse into who the Poles were and who they could be, while expressing his own homesickness, communicating through music what could never be spoken in words. Bibliography Bakst, James. “Polish National Influences in Chopin’s Music.” The Polish Review 7, no. 4 (1962): 55–68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776430. Bellman, Jonathan D. Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom. Oxford University Press, 2010. Chopin, Frédéric. Chopin: Complete Works, Vol. X: Mazurkas. Edited by Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1949. https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/d/dc/IMSLP888398PMLP2283-PWM-1949-Chopin-4-Mazurkas-Op.30.pdf. ———. Krakowiak for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 14. Edited by Kazimierz Sikorski. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1961. https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/6/67/IMSLP55547PMLP03811-Chopin_op.14_Krakowiak_fs_PWM_vol21.pdf. ———. Polonaises, Series A. Edited by Chopina Jan Ekier and Paweł Kamiński. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1995. https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/e/e6/IMSLP818339PMLP02330-E818328_4-18-Chopin--polonaises--Ekier.pdf. Gengaro, Christine Lee. Experiencing Chopin: A Listener’s Companion. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. Goldberg, Halina. “Nationalizing the Kujawiak and Constructions of Nostalgia in Chopin’s Mazurkas.” 19th-Century Music 39, no. 3 (2016): 223–247. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26348863. Klein, Michael. “Chopin Dreams: The Mazurka in C# Minor, Op. 30, no. 4.” 19th-Century Music 35, no. 3 (2012): 238–260. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncm.2012.35.3.238. LaFarge, Annik. Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions. Simon & Schuster, 2020. Milewski, Barbara. “The Search for Folk Sources in Chopin’s Mazurkas.” The Polish Review 45, no. 1 (2000): 3–27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25779169.

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