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

Jeffrey Kallberg is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.