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her husband and daughter
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Who accompanied Chopin's sister to Paris?
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Jane Stirling
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Who gave Chopin a loan in September for an apartment?
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to faint
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What did Parisian ladies consider proper etiquette when in Chopin's room?
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fear of being buried alive
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Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death?
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"No longer"
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What did Chopin reply to the doctor when asked is he was suffering?
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Clésinger
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Who made Chopin's death mask?
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fear of being buried alive
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Why did Chopin want his body opened when he died?
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a cast of his left hand.
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What did Solange's husband make hours after Chopin's death along with his death mask?
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tuberculosis
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What is listed as Chopin's official cause of death?
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Jean Cruveilhier
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What was the name of Chopin's doctor?
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DNA testing
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What has the Polish government not allowed to find true cause of death?
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tuberculosis
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What was the cause of death on Chopin's death certificate?
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Jean Cruveilhier
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Who was Chopin's physician?
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cystic fibrosis
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Other possiblities for Chopin's death include cirrhosis, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and what?
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the Polish government.
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Who has denied testing Chopin's DNA to determine the actual cause of death?
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Church of the Madeleine
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Where was Chopin's funeral held?
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two weeks
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How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
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Over 3,000
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How many people arrived for Chopin's funeral?
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the Church of the Madeleine in Paris
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Where was Chopin's funeral held?
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two weeks
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How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
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Over 3,000
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How many people arrived without an invitation?
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Mozart's Requiem
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What song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
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Louis Lefébure-Wély
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Who was the organist at Chopin's funeral?
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Prince Adam Czartoryski
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Who led Chopin's funeral procession?
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Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
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What was played at his graveside?
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Mozart's Requiem
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What Mozart song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
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Louis Lefébure-Wély
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Who was the organist for Chopin's funeral?
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Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Which cemetery was Chopin buried in?
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Prince Adam Czartoryski
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Who led the funeral procession?
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the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
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What was played at Chopin's graveside?
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Clésinger
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Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone?
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Euterpe
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What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone?
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5,000 francs
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How much did Chopin's funeral cost?
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Jane Stirling
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Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
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alcohol
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Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what?
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Clésinger.
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Who designed Chopin's tombstone?
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5,000 francs
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How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost?
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Jane Stirling
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Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
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sister
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Who took Chopin's heart to Poland?
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Sand
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Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?
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Over 230
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How many of Chopin's works still exist?
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piano
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All of his pieces include what instrument?
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Over 230
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How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived?
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chamber music.
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Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what?
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Clementi
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Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students?
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Clementi
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Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students?
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Bach and Mozart
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Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences?
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Haydn
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Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education?
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John Field
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Who is credited with creating the nocturne?
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ballades and scherzi
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Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces?
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nocturne
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What new genre di John Field invent?
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ballades and scherzi
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Chopin was first in writing what for concerts?
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concert étude
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What musical concept did Chopin exploit?
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Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles
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What three other musicians were developing the new genre?
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seven
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How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived?
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nine
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How many polonaises were published after Chopin died?
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mazurkas
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Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known?
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faster tempos
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What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz?
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greater range of melody and expression.
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What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era?
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concert hall
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Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall?
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the mazurka
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What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans?
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nine
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How many Chopin polonaises were published after his death?
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waltzes
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What dance music of Chopin was written more for recitals than ballrooms?
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the Revolutionary Étude
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What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered?
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Funeral March
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What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to?
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Sonata No. 2
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The Funeral March was written as part of what piece?
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one
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How many instrumental works did Chopin give a descriptive name to?
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Revolutionary Étude
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What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given?
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Minute Waltz
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What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given?
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65
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What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus?
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Julian Fontana
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Who was Chopin's musical executor?
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23
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How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight more opus numbers?
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17
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Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs?
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65
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What is the last opus number that Chopin used?
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Julian Fontana
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Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855?
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1857
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When was Op. 74 published?
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Krystyna Kobylańska
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The Kobylańska Catalogue was named for who?
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1857
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Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers?
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alternative catalogue designations
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What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?
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the Kobylańska Catalogue
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What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces?
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KK
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What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue?
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Krystyna Kobylańska.
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Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue?
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Breitkopf & Härtel
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Who released the first collection of Chopin's works?
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Jan Ekier
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Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works?
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original publishers
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Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin?
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popular 19th-century piano anthologies.
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Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up?
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Paderewski
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What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966?
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Jan Ekier
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Who edited the Polish National Edition?
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Improvisation
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What is central to Chopin's process?
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the four-bar phrase
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Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what?
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Improvisation
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What is central to Chopin's creativeness?
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Nicholas Temperley
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Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"?
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his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit.
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What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality?
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the Barcarolle Op. 60
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What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette?
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the four ballades and four scherzos
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What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces?
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departure and return
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What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on?
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folk features
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Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions?
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straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda.
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What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in?
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mazurkas
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Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects?
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drone bass
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What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit?
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