Richer harmonies, use of rubato, expressive emotions, long,slow lyrical melodies, experimentation with instrumental colour, rise of vurtuoso peformer
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TEXTURE
Entirely homophonic apart from the two monophnic bars at the end of the piece, SECTION A: melody in right hand, broken chords. SECTION B: Melody in left hand, chordal with inverted pedal, octave doubling thickens the texture
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PIANO PLAYING AND TECHNIQUES
plays 'CANTABILE' (legato, singing like), pianos developed in Romantic period so larger dynamic range, PEDALS are SUSTAINED (sostenuto) or SOFT
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MELODY AND THEMES
SECTION A: dotted rhythms, in Db Major, the lyrical falling motifs makes it sound sad. SECTION B: melody in left hand, resembles a storm like atmosphere. Decorated with ACCIACITURAS and TURNS, phrases are 4-8 bars long
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DYNAMICS
Lots of crescendos and diminuendos, dynamics start soft, 'SOTTO VOCE' ('under voice') then reaches FF in section B, the return of section A is 'P' 'SMORZANDO' ('dying away') and there is a RIT and the end and the piece ends as 'P'
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TONALITY AND HARMONY
SECTION A: Db MAJOR. SECTION B: C#MINOR, Dominant pedal can be heard thoughout and is very clear in section B (repeated G# quavers), mostly diatonic with chromatisism explored in the return of section A. Opens and ends in Db Maj with perfect cadence
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RHYTHM AND TEMPO
LEGATO, Time sig :4/4, use of rubato (robbed time),the dotted rhythms in section A give the light feeling of raindrops, SOSTENUTO (sustained)
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STRUCTURE
TERNARY form (ABA) A= Lyrical falling motif, quavers in bass. B=Melody played in bass, FORTISSIMO CLIMAXES. A (return) =short repeat of section A. CODA= in Db Maj
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Entirely homophonic apart from the two monophnic bars at the end of the piece, SECTION A: melody in right hand, broken chords. SECTION B: Melody in left hand, chordal with inverted pedal, octave doubling thickens the texture
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