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Tag: Opus 28 – Chopin
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for a total of 24, as many as in Chopin’s
undivided set, his Opus 28, but with
different motivations, different musical
imperatives, which I won’t get into here
for being, for the present, too abstruse
Gershwin, just for kicks, his only three
what are the differences
you tell me
R ! chard
psst: Gershwin, to my mind, adds,
indeed stresses, rhythm,
fascinatin’, as it were, rhythm,
he’s no longer as unrelentingly
meditative, serious, as was
Debussy, a distinguishing
characteristic of the
increasingly American 20th
Century
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what’s a prelude
something that, by definition,
precedes something else
which it had been, formally,
before Chopin made it stand
alone as a musical form,
much, incidentally, as he
a prelude, earlier, had preceded
several other dance pieces in
example, all start with a
or fronted fugues, in, again,
notably, Bach’s celebrated
Preludes and Fugues sets,
more of which, for their
complexity, later
here’s Chopin, however, with
his array of 24, his Opus 28,
one for each key, incidentally,
much in the manner of Bach’s
template pieces, the Preludes
and Fugues
picking it up for the 20th
Century, with his tonally
indiscriminate 12
what’s the difference
you tell me
R ! chard
psst: apples and oranges, I think,
depends on my mood that
particular night, whether
meditative or melancholy
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