Part 1: The growth of a style. Piano music and the public concert 1800-1850 / Janet Ritterman ; The nocturne : development of a new style / David Rowland ; The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents / Simon Finlow ; Tonal architecture in the early music / John Rink. Part 2: Profiles of the music: Extended forms : the ballades, scherzos and fantasies / Jim Samson ; Small 'forms' : in defence of the prelude / Jeffrey Kallberg ; Beyond the dance / Adrian Thomas ; The sonatas / Anatole Leikin. Part 3. Reception: Chopin in performance / James Methuen-Campbell ; Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland / Zofia Chechlińska ; Victorian attitudes to Chopin / Derek Carew ; Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond / Roy Howat.