Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chopin
Prelude No.15
Raindrop
- Info
- Frédéric Chopin
- Born in Poland- 1810
- Settles in Paris
- famous love affair with
the French novelist
Amantine Dupin
- one of the 24 Chopin preludes
- NOT an introductory
piece IN THIS CASE
- ROMANTIC PERIOD (roughly the 19th century)
- Emotional + Epressive
- PROGRAMME MUSIC
- Instruments
- Piano
- Main instrument in
Romantic Period
- Melody
- Falling Sequences
- CANTABILE
- Changes from Right
hand- Section A to Left
hand0 Section B
- Dynamic change from p to ff from A to B
- Contrast in sections- shows
rise and fall of rain 'storm'
- LEGATO
- Smorzando
- ACCIACCATURA
- CHROMATIC notes
- Harmony
- PERFECT CADENCE at the end
- PEDAL NOTE throughout
- used to create
repetitive sound of
rain
- Mainly chords 1 and V7
- V7- root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor
seventh
- Tonality
- A- Bb Major B- C# Minor
- ENHARMONIC EQUIVILANTS
- Texture
- A- Melody and Accompaniment
- B- Homophonic
- PEDAL NOTE
- Structure
- TERNARY FORM
- ABA
- 1 Theme, then second
contrasting theme, then back
to first theme
- Section A has internal
ternary structure
- CODETTA
at the end
- Tempo
- RUBATO
- Metre
- 4/4
- 4 crotchets in a bar
- Common Time
- Rythm
- Mostly crotchets and quavers
- SMORZANDO
- SOSTENUTO