Different structures of the narrative course in Chopin’s last style (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

The last style of Chopin is a new notion in musicology in France. In spite of the fact that the authors admit its existence, very less researches concern this subject, particularly in France. All along our researches, the analysis of the works of our corpus shows us different narratives structures. The narrative framework, proved by some theoretician of literature , is the thread of the main conventional narrative and can also govern the musical discourse: initial situation (tranquillity, exposition), inciting incident, quest and adventures, crisis, resolution, and final situation. In the romantic period, the artists change these traditional paths to express their new aesthetics ideas and cause a bursting of the classical structures, which will more freely model the narrative framework. In this paper, we want to present several examples of different narrative structures in Chopin’s last style. In fact, the themes, motives and thymic states of the works enable to model different evolutions of the dramaturgy. The results of these researches reveal different “narrative structures” used by Chopin in the works of the last style.

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