Chopin sonata b flat minor10/4/2023 ![]() The performer is urged to summon legato, a singing tone and the roundness necessary to express this rare beauty, not to ignore the rich bass supporting the top. Not until measure 42 does Chopin break into a fully sustained melody in the relative major key of D flat. Rests between the small figures add to the breathless quality of the music, to the motion and angst. Measure 7, agitato, offers snippets of melody over broken chords in the bass. The resolution at measure 5, doppio movimento, or double time, grows out of the introduction organically into an agitated romp as if through a dark forest. Next an accented chord – C#-G#-C# – still in the bass slowly resolves to the V of I and suspends us there momentarily – so much foreboding in the span of four measures. Part of Op.Like a graveyard bell a long-held octave in D flat plummets a 7th below and heralds the opening of the first movement. Part of Op.22 composed later and served as introduction of Grande polonaise
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