Chopin ~ Prelude no. 15 in D flat major 1838.
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- Chopin ~ Prelude no. 15 in D flat major 1838.
- Dynamics
- Piece starts softly
- Section A
- Soft throughout. Marked sustained (sostenuto) and soft (piano).
- Section B
- Starts quietly (sotto voce) then crescendos to ff. Much louder than other sections.
- Piece ends very softly (pp), smorzando towards the end (dying away)
- Many crescendos and diminuendos
- Melody
- Cantabile melody lines
- Use of rubato
- Regular phrases
- Falling motif
- Section A
- The right hand has the melody line in four bar phrases. Left hand quaver accompaniment repeated A flats (raindrops).
- Section B
- Melody in the left hand and G sharps in right hand. Then changed to melody in right hand to bar 60-75.
- Texture
- Expressive use of loud and soft pedals
- Homophonic melody and accompaniment. Although monophonic at codetta.
- Section A
- Broken chordal accompaniment
- Section B
- Chordal accompaniment and repeated notes played in octaves in the right hand. Causes a fuller and robust sound.
- Structure
- Ternary form (ABA)
- Short coda at the end lasts 8 bars.
- Section A
- 27 bars. And the 2nd Section A is 6 bars, (shorter return of A).
- Section B
- Lasts 47 bars. Long and dramatic.
- Tonality and harmony
- Harmony is largely diatonic
- Uses 7ths and 9ths.
- Section A
- Section A is major, the key is D flat major.
- Section B
- Section B is minor, the key is C sharp minor. Some tonally amiguous chords.
- Some chromatic notes.
- Regular cadences to define keys. The music modulates to related/unrelated keys.
- Dynamics
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