Piano Prelude (Raindrop) - Chopin - Revision
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- Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28 - Chopin (Raindrop)
- Structure
- Ternary Form - ABA with a codetta at the end.
- Tonality and Harmony
- A section - D flat major
- B section - C sharp minor - the enharmonic minor of D flat.
- A flat/ G sharp are used as a repeated dominant pedal.
- Perfect Cadence to end the piece.
- Harmonied in 6ths
- Instrumentation
- Piano - uses a sustaining pedal
- Melody dominated homophony
- Expressive qualities are made.
- Dynamics
- Dramatic and expressive
- Use of crescendos and diminuendos
- Extremes of dynamics used (PP and FF)
- Melody
- Cantabile - in a singing style is how the piano is played.
- B section has a lower tessitura
- Use of dominant pedal to imply raindrops
- Sometimes the pedal goes into the inverted dominant at the top of the texture.
- The inner pedal is used and is in the middle of the texture.
- Tempo and Rhythm
- Rubato - free tempo is used to make the piece more expressive
- Slow and held back
- In common time (4/4) and Sostenuto - sustained.
- Slows down at the end - Ritenuto.
- Structure
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