![]() ![]() That’s Romanticism, and it happens again and again in the 20 nocturnes. Those Chopinuplets are saying screw your strict divisions, my soul is singing. A great interpreter (like Rubinstein below) frees that spirit even further by stretching the beats, allowing all those notes room to breathe. Instead of six notes per half bar, the melody bursts into this effusive chromatic flow of 33 notes where 18 “should” be. Then at 0:13, as the left continues to churn out those sixes, the right hand suddenly gets naked and dances on the table: ![]() In the first bar, the right hand establishes that flow of eighth notes, six notes every half bar. ![]() The thing I love most about this one is his liberation of the melody from the beat. There’s a lot to talk about in the B-Flat Minor nocturne - including theorythings like the lowered sixth in major (0:29) and the spooky Neapolitan harmonies (1:11) that give Chopin his Chopiness - but I want to keep it short on these posts. Alright, I understand that it is minor, no problem. That was fine until we left it running longer than usual and learned what Nocturne No. seriously Ask Question Asked 9 years, 8 months ago Modified 5 years, 10 months ago Viewed 10k times 36 My music teacher always rambles on about B flat minor, endlessly repeating how it is the key of death and is therefore used in movies for death scenes. When my son was four, he listened to a CD of Chopin nocturnes to go to sleep. The nocturne is meant to evoke the calm of night, and Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor is no exception. Chopin is warm and dark and safe and sad to me, but it’s also the physical vibrations of that piano against my back.Īll that to say: I don’t approach Chopin objectively. ![]() I would sometimes lie beneath the keyboard by the pedals with my back against the piano as he played nocturnes, picturing that tortured, tubercular Delacroix painting ^ on the cover of Ron’s music. He played other things, but those are the ones I can still hear - and it’s Chopin that makes me feel five years old again. The soundtrack of my childhood came through my brother’s piano in three threads: West Side Story, Scott Joplin, and Chopin. position / scale note number) of that scale.(First in the Laney’s List series - a music professor chooses 36 pieces to introduce his 16-year-old daughter to classical music.) This step shows which scales note B-flat occurs in, including the scale degree (ie. ![]()
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