Characteristic Features of Brahms in his Ballade and Intermezzo
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- Created on: 03-04-19 16:37
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- Brahms - Characteristic Features
- Overall thoughtful and considered style
- Romantic lyricism
- Leap of a 7th bar 34
- Master of building a phrase from a motif
- Ballade - bar 15 is based of bar 3 with added figured bass
- Intermesso - the main theme is repeated at bar 34 in inversion
- Valued balance
- Both of his pieces are ternary form with equal phrasing
- Climbing in semitones to reach the climax
- Intermezzo - bar 30 climbs in semitones reaching a high A
- Texturally imaginative
- melody moved to inner parts in the Intermezzo bar 30 -34
- Doubling of melody in 3rds, 6ths and 10ths
- evidence found in the first 4 bars of the intermezzo
- Use of classical ideas
- Emphasis on balance
- repetition in bar 8
- modulation to closely related keys
- First phrase ends with a imperfect cadence, second phrase ends with an perfect cadence
- rolling arpeggio accompaniment. Ballade bar 38 -48
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