Narrative Tonality and Innigkeit in Szymanowska’s “Nocturne in Bb”

Written By Chris McLaughlin

This research analyzes the music of Maria Szymanowska, Frederic Chopin’s oft-uncredited Polish predecessor, and her use of chromatic harmony as a narrative device and to foreshadow the popular use of the Germanic notion of Innigkeit in (late) Romantic music.

Chris McLaughlin
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