Chopin's Prelude No. 15 'Raindrop' in Db major
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- Chopin's Prelude No. 15 'Raindrop' in Db major
- INSTRUMENTS
- piano
- uses mostly middle and lower registers of piano
- isn't virtuosic (unusual for period)
- great use of piano's legato, singing tone
- exploitation of wide dynamic range on piano (lots of crescendo + diminuendo)
- sustain pedal
- TONALITY
- in Db major
- section b modulates to enharmonic tonic minor - C#
- mainly diatonic harmony
- chromaticism
- MELODY
- lyrical melody to start in RH
- falling motif - raindrops
- dotted rhythms
- chromaticism
- ornamented melody - acciaccatura and turns
- melody moves to bass in middle section
- melody has narrow range + uses long notes
- 4 + 8 bar phrases
- TEXTURE
- homophonic - apart from 2 bars @ end
- section A - melody in RH supported by broken chords in LH
- section B - melody in LH with repeated quavers in RH (inverted pedal) + doubled in octaves
- section B - chordal texture
- short monophonic phrase @ coda in RH
- HARMONY
- diatonic with occasional chromaticism
- sections A + B - end with imperfect cadences
- prelude end in perfect cadence
- dominant pedal heard throughout (articulated)
- STRUCTURE
- ternary form
- final section A - shorter than first
- brief coda @ end
- section A - in ternary form
- RHYTHM,METRE & TEMPO
- time sig - 4/4
- sextuplet + dectuplet
- repeated quavers unify piece as occur throughout
- main motif @ start uses dotted rhythm - occurs throughout section A
- 'sostenuto' - legato, unhurried playing
- rubato - robbed time
- DYNAMICS
- crescendos and diminuendos
- wide range of dynamics - no sudden contrasts
- Section A is quite than B - two ff climaxes
- INSTRUMENTS
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