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'''''Métopes''''', [[opus number|Op.]] 29, is a work for [[piano]] solo by the Polish composer [[Karol Szymanowski]], completed in 1915. It is a suite of three miniature [[tone poem]]s drawing on [[Greek mythology]].

Each of the three [[movement (music)|movements]] features a female character encountered by [[Odysseus]] on his homeward voyage. The movements are:
* "The Isle of the Sirens"
* "Calypso"
* "Nausicaa"

The work may have been inspired by the [[metope (architecture)|metopes]] of the temple at [[Selinunte]].

The composition is the first of four piano works composed by Szymanowski during the First World War, an intensely productive period for the composer. In style it resembles [[impressionist music|impressionism]] and [[bitonality|bitonal]] works by [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]] and [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]].

== References ==
* Didier van Moere, CD booklet insert: Szymanowki Sonata no 3, Masques, Métopes, performed by [[Piotr Anderszewski]], 2005
* Malcolm MacDonald, CD booklet insert: Szymanowski piano works and works for violin and piano, various performers, EMI classics 2005

== External links ==
* {{IMSLP2|work=Metopes, Op.29 (Szymanowski, Karol)}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPT8-NSeg-w Lecture-recital by Mikoklaj Warszynski] who has recorded the work on this album which appears on Spotify [http://open.spotify.com/album/0eRLE4SdEbEdPFSs32ljQ5]

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