April 11, 201114 yr The first - shall we say bartok and grieg ? What is remarkable this is Chopin's Op 7! Now late Chopin - But still what function is harmony here? Color? Counterpoint seems to dictate the harmony rather than traditional harmony once the the full period is stated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4hwAO1BRfk
April 12, 201114 yr the first is rather curious - i think it is in the wrong time signature, or is not the most ideal placement of harmonies in relation to meter. the second is indeed most sublime - especially the shifts of key! ashkenazy really rocks it. it seems to me that chopin is really at his best when he is being experimental harmonically.
April 12, 201114 yr Author Actually i think the first one is fine. Rather there is not sense of harmony ... totally a reliance on meter. But that is more my taste.
April 12, 201114 yr I think they are both very nice. Sort of reminds me of a piece he wrote name "Prelude in X" and wrote the whole thing in a different key except for the last few chords. It's quite a remarkable piece.
April 13, 201114 yr Author Hmmm - Not sure which prelude you speak of, overall many are quite remarkable: THe F minor - baroque recitative on steroids: The F # minor - chromatically daring and gorgeous - pretty much late Romanticism with a few impressionistic hints already in this piece - Or the famous A minor - The lh may as well be early Berg The G major for the unusual pentatonic like voicing in the left hand and the barely can call it a melody in the Rh --- yet it works so beautifully! Ah and shall we dance? The E flat major one which has the curious diversions everyone studies in theory:
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