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Major Scales: How to Play A Flat Major Scale on Piano (Right and Left hand)
Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
published: 02 Jun 2013
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A Flat Major Chords | A Flat Piano Chord | Gospel Piano | Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced
A Flat Major Chords are a must-have if you want to learn to play gospel piano music by ear. Study these contemporary voicings to add flavor to your playing and to expand your piano chord vocabulary. In this lesson, you will be taught chord options for each tone of the a flat major scale.
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published: 25 Oct 2020
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Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major. Played by Arthur Rubinstein.
This piece has performance notes written by Dr. Theodor Kullak, German composer. I do not know that Rubinstein performed based on these notes, but the score I used includes them, so you can read them if you're interested. (The letters in the score correspond to letters in the notes.)
"After a short prelude 'A', at 'B' begins the nocturne proper, which consists of a chief subject 'B'-'C', and a secondary subject 'C'-'E'. The latter is followed by the repitition of the chief subject.
"The chief subject 'B'-'C' (two-part song-form) reminds one in point of mood and coloring, of the preceding nocturne (Op.32 No.1). The secondary subject 'C'-'E' is more animated in style, and, at its transposition from F minor to F s...
published: 15 Jan 2012
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Chopin - Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)
Chopin - Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)
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published: 28 Nov 2019
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A Flat Major Scale on Piano
Piano teacher Miss Jenifer shows you how to play the Ab Major Scale on the piano with both hands separately and together one octave.
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published: 05 Apr 2020
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A flat Major Scale For Piano
A Basic demonstration of the A-flat Major Scale on the piano. First, one hand, one octave. Then, two hands, two octaves. Try it playing quarter-notes, and then eighth-notes, and then sixteenths.
published: 23 Jan 2013
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Beethoven: Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major (Ashkenazy)
Movement I: 00:00
Movement II: 06:40
Movement III*: 08:55 [Fugue I: 12:55 -- Fugue II (inversion): 18:00]
The sunniest of Beethoven's great late sonatas, and one that contains some beautiful and beautifully deployed fugal writing (note the complexity of some of the augmentation/diminution used -- see 18:35 -- and that the fugue subject is derived very directly from the opening phrase of the first movement).
It is interesting to note how different the fugal writing here is from that deployed in the Hammerklavier, No.29. Here the fugal writing is very strict, with the relatively meek exception of some doubling in the bass, but in the Hammerklavier the huge fugue includes some truly daring departures from the rules.
This is also the only late sonata which seems to have real humour in it (...
published: 06 Jun 2014
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"A" Flat Major Piano Scale - Piano Scale Lessons
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Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
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published: 31 Aug 2009
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Beethoven: Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major, Op.110 (Lortie, Siirala, Kovacevich)
The most warmly lyrical of all of Beethoven’s late sonatas, and probably my favourite of all 32.
Why? Well, to start with the obvious: In a late sonata, where you’d expect ambiguity, radical structural innovation, gnarled counterpoint – a conventional 1st movement, with a theme so simple and unadorned [0:18] its only warrant, really, is its beauty. The development is not just simple but consciously minimalist, and the shift to and from E Maj in the recapitulation [3:36; 4:09] is exquisitely beautiful.
There is also the structural tightness of the sonata. The opening bars of the sonata become the subject of the first fugue in the last movement, and, in an inverted form, the subject of the second fugue also. The opening phrase of the 2nd movement scherzo [6:24] also becomes transformed in...
published: 06 Feb 2017
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Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15 // BRAHMS
This short and beautiful waltz is Johannes Brahms' most popular works from his Sixteen Waltzes Op. 39
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published: 09 Mar 2016
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Major Scales: How to Play A Flat Major Scale on Piano (Right and Left hand)
Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
https://wn.com/Major_Scales_How_To_Play_A_Flat_Major_Scale_On_Piano_(Right_And_Left_Hand)
Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
- published: 02 Jun 2013
- views: 38280
21:23
A Flat Major Chords | A Flat Piano Chord | Gospel Piano | Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced
A Flat Major Chords are a must-have if you want to learn to play gospel piano music by ear. Study these contemporary voicings to add flavor to your playing an...
A Flat Major Chords are a must-have if you want to learn to play gospel piano music by ear. Study these contemporary voicings to add flavor to your playing and to expand your piano chord vocabulary. In this lesson, you will be taught chord options for each tone of the a flat major scale.
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A Flat Major Chords are a must-have if you want to learn to play gospel piano music by ear. Study these contemporary voicings to add flavor to your playing and to expand your piano chord vocabulary. In this lesson, you will be taught chord options for each tone of the a flat major scale.
#A flat major scale #a flat major #a flat major key signature #a flat piano chord #piano a flat chord #jazz chord progressions #jazz chord progressions piano #Piano chords that sound good together #piano chords online #piano chords songs #piano chords #church piano songs #Christian piano player #piano chords for hymns #Norfolk piano lessons Norfolk #play gospel piano #Norfolk learn to play gospel piano #Norfolk praise piano music #Norfolk notes for piano #piano tutorial #piano tutorial #advanced piano tutorial #beginner piano tutorial #gospel
- published: 25 Oct 2020
- views: 6238
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Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major. Played by Arthur Rubinstein.
This piece has performance notes written by Dr. Theodor Kullak, German composer. I ...
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major. Played by Arthur Rubinstein.
This piece has performance notes written by Dr. Theodor Kullak, German composer. I do not know that Rubinstein performed based on these notes, but the score I used includes them, so you can read them if you're interested. (The letters in the score correspond to letters in the notes.)
"After a short prelude 'A', at 'B' begins the nocturne proper, which consists of a chief subject 'B'-'C', and a secondary subject 'C'-'E'. The latter is followed by the repitition of the chief subject.
"The chief subject 'B'-'C' (two-part song-form) reminds one in point of mood and coloring, of the preceding nocturne (Op.32 No.1). The secondary subject 'C'-'E' is more animated in style, and, at its transposition from F minor to F sharp minor at 'D' it assumes so passionate a character that even the chief subject, when it reappears at 'E', continues for a while in a state of stormy excitement (appassionato) and only by degrees recovers its dreamy repose. The same prelude which introduces the nocturne also forms the coda proper."
Performance Notes Copyright G. Schirmer, 1881.
Rubinstein's recording ©1999 RCA Red Seal, now Sony Entertainment.
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Chopin Nocturne op. 32 No. 2 su A-flat Major. Interpretato da Arthur Rubinstein.
Questo brano ha note di prestazioni scritte da Dr. Theodor Kullak, compositore tedesco. Non so che Rubinstein effettuata sulla base di queste note, ma lo spartito che ho usato li include, in modo da poterli leggere se siete interessati. (Le lettere nello spartito corrispondono alle lettere nelle note.)
"Dopo un breve preludio 'A', a 'B' inizia la propria notturno, che consiste di un soggetto capo 'B'-' C ', e un soggetto secondario' C '-' E '. Quest'ultimo è seguito dalla ripetizione del soggetto principale.
"Il soggetto principale 'B'-' C '(in due parti sotto forma di canzone) ricorda al punto di umore e di colorazione, del notturno precedente (Op.32 N ° 1). Il soggetto secondario 'C'-'E' è più animata nello stile, e, al sua trasposizione da F minore a Fa diesis minore a 'D' assume un carattere così appassionato che anche il principale oggetto, quando riappare a 'E', prosegue per un po' in uno stato tempesta di eccitazione (appassionato) e solo a poco a poco ritrova la sua quiete sognante. Il preludio stessa che introduce il notturno costituisce anche la propria coda."
Note prestazioni sono Copyright G. Schirmer, 1881.
Registrazione di Rubinstein © 1999 RCA Red Seal, ora Sony Entertainment.
https://wn.com/Chopin_Nocturne_Op._32_No._2_In_A_Flat_Major
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 in A-flat Major. Played by Arthur Rubinstein.
This piece has performance notes written by Dr. Theodor Kullak, German composer. I do not know that Rubinstein performed based on these notes, but the score I used includes them, so you can read them if you're interested. (The letters in the score correspond to letters in the notes.)
"After a short prelude 'A', at 'B' begins the nocturne proper, which consists of a chief subject 'B'-'C', and a secondary subject 'C'-'E'. The latter is followed by the repitition of the chief subject.
"The chief subject 'B'-'C' (two-part song-form) reminds one in point of mood and coloring, of the preceding nocturne (Op.32 No.1). The secondary subject 'C'-'E' is more animated in style, and, at its transposition from F minor to F sharp minor at 'D' it assumes so passionate a character that even the chief subject, when it reappears at 'E', continues for a while in a state of stormy excitement (appassionato) and only by degrees recovers its dreamy repose. The same prelude which introduces the nocturne also forms the coda proper."
Performance Notes Copyright G. Schirmer, 1881.
Rubinstein's recording ©1999 RCA Red Seal, now Sony Entertainment.
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Chopin Nocturne op. 32 No. 2 su A-flat Major. Interpretato da Arthur Rubinstein.
Questo brano ha note di prestazioni scritte da Dr. Theodor Kullak, compositore tedesco. Non so che Rubinstein effettuata sulla base di queste note, ma lo spartito che ho usato li include, in modo da poterli leggere se siete interessati. (Le lettere nello spartito corrispondono alle lettere nelle note.)
"Dopo un breve preludio 'A', a 'B' inizia la propria notturno, che consiste di un soggetto capo 'B'-' C ', e un soggetto secondario' C '-' E '. Quest'ultimo è seguito dalla ripetizione del soggetto principale.
"Il soggetto principale 'B'-' C '(in due parti sotto forma di canzone) ricorda al punto di umore e di colorazione, del notturno precedente (Op.32 N ° 1). Il soggetto secondario 'C'-'E' è più animata nello stile, e, al sua trasposizione da F minore a Fa diesis minore a 'D' assume un carattere così appassionato che anche il principale oggetto, quando riappare a 'E', prosegue per un po' in uno stato tempesta di eccitazione (appassionato) e solo a poco a poco ritrova la sua quiete sognante. Il preludio stessa che introduce il notturno costituisce anche la propria coda."
Note prestazioni sono Copyright G. Schirmer, 1881.
Registrazione di Rubinstein © 1999 RCA Red Seal, ora Sony Entertainment.
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 519557
7:16
Chopin - Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)
Chopin - Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)
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Chopin - Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)
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- published: 28 Nov 2019
- views: 3466733
6:48
A Flat Major Scale on Piano
Piano teacher Miss Jenifer shows you how to play the Ab Major Scale on the piano with both hands separately and together one octave.
Piano Guitar & Violin Less...
Piano teacher Miss Jenifer shows you how to play the Ab Major Scale on the piano with both hands separately and together one octave.
Piano Guitar & Violin Lessons
Somerset Academy of Music
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Piano teacher Miss Jenifer shows you how to play the Ab Major Scale on the piano with both hands separately and together one octave.
Piano Guitar & Violin Lessons
Somerset Academy of Music
www.somersetacademyofmusic.com
513-683-9277
- published: 05 Apr 2020
- views: 854
1:35
A flat Major Scale For Piano
A Basic demonstration of the A-flat Major Scale on the piano. First, one hand, one octave. Then, two hands, two octaves. Try it playing quarter-notes, and th...
A Basic demonstration of the A-flat Major Scale on the piano. First, one hand, one octave. Then, two hands, two octaves. Try it playing quarter-notes, and then eighth-notes, and then sixteenths.
https://wn.com/A_Flat_Major_Scale_For_Piano
A Basic demonstration of the A-flat Major Scale on the piano. First, one hand, one octave. Then, two hands, two octaves. Try it playing quarter-notes, and then eighth-notes, and then sixteenths.
- published: 23 Jan 2013
- views: 14851
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Beethoven: Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major (Ashkenazy)
Movement I: 00:00
Movement II: 06:40
Movement III*: 08:55 [Fugue I: 12:55 -- Fugue II (inversion): 18:00]
The sunniest of Beethoven's great late sonatas, and o...
Movement I: 00:00
Movement II: 06:40
Movement III*: 08:55 [Fugue I: 12:55 -- Fugue II (inversion): 18:00]
The sunniest of Beethoven's great late sonatas, and one that contains some beautiful and beautifully deployed fugal writing (note the complexity of some of the augmentation/diminution used -- see 18:35 -- and that the fugue subject is derived very directly from the opening phrase of the first movement).
It is interesting to note how different the fugal writing here is from that deployed in the Hammerklavier, No.29. Here the fugal writing is very strict, with the relatively meek exception of some doubling in the bass, but in the Hammerklavier the huge fugue includes some truly daring departures from the rules.
This is also the only late sonata which seems to have real humour in it (in the second movement).
Ashkenazy plays the first movement with incredible tenderness, and (thankfully) takes the fugal sections of the third movement with a speed that imbues with with prayerlike, reverential clarity.
https://wn.com/Beethoven_Sonata_No.31_In_A_Flat_Major_(Ashkenazy)
Movement I: 00:00
Movement II: 06:40
Movement III*: 08:55 [Fugue I: 12:55 -- Fugue II (inversion): 18:00]
The sunniest of Beethoven's great late sonatas, and one that contains some beautiful and beautifully deployed fugal writing (note the complexity of some of the augmentation/diminution used -- see 18:35 -- and that the fugue subject is derived very directly from the opening phrase of the first movement).
It is interesting to note how different the fugal writing here is from that deployed in the Hammerklavier, No.29. Here the fugal writing is very strict, with the relatively meek exception of some doubling in the bass, but in the Hammerklavier the huge fugue includes some truly daring departures from the rules.
This is also the only late sonata which seems to have real humour in it (in the second movement).
Ashkenazy plays the first movement with incredible tenderness, and (thankfully) takes the fugal sections of the third movement with a speed that imbues with with prayerlike, reverential clarity.
- published: 06 Jun 2014
- views: 289573
1:44
"A" Flat Major Piano Scale - Piano Scale Lessons
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Learn how to pla...
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Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
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Learn how to play the major scale in A flat in this piano lesson. Learning the scales on the piano is important for when you're creating parts on piano!
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For More Resources Check Out:
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- published: 31 Aug 2009
- views: 129595
59:05
Beethoven: Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major, Op.110 (Lortie, Siirala, Kovacevich)
The most warmly lyrical of all of Beethoven’s late sonatas, and probably my favourite of all 32.
Why? Well, to start with the obvious: In a late sonata, where...
The most warmly lyrical of all of Beethoven’s late sonatas, and probably my favourite of all 32.
Why? Well, to start with the obvious: In a late sonata, where you’d expect ambiguity, radical structural innovation, gnarled counterpoint – a conventional 1st movement, with a theme so simple and unadorned [0:18] its only warrant, really, is its beauty. The development is not just simple but consciously minimalist, and the shift to and from E Maj in the recapitulation [3:36; 4:09] is exquisitely beautiful.
There is also the structural tightness of the sonata. The opening bars of the sonata become the subject of the first fugue in the last movement, and, in an inverted form, the subject of the second fugue also. The opening phrase of the 2nd movement scherzo [6:24] also becomes transformed into the arioso of the final movement [10:26]. So Beethoven does not just shift the focus of the sonata form from first movement to last, or even use the final movement to unify the other two – in this sonata, the final movement is where the themes presented in other two really take flight, and the final movement is almost entirely built around material already presented.
Also, that last movement. It features the most sophisticated use of counterpoint of all 32 sonatas: not because the contrapuntal writing is ingenious (which it is, but Sonatas No.28 + 29 have got that too), but because the counterpoint is used (maybe for the first time in musical history) as part of a dramatic narrative. The final movement is basically a struggle between the arioso theme, which is not merely sad but crushingly hopeless (dolente = painful, aching, ermattet = exhausted) to the point of its literally breaking up the second time it’s presented, and the fugue, which radiates an inner strength and consolation.
In the end, the fugue wins, but in an extraordinary way. The second fugue does not merely achieve a triumphant shape: it burns itself out of existence. As the texture thickens and intensifies with inversions and simultaneous presentations of augmentations and diminuitions [57:30], suddenly there are just two voices duelling in ecstasy [57:53, with the shift to 2 voices at 58:05], incessantly reaching higher, and then suddenly there is just one voice, the main theme pouring out in a great chorale [58:19]. It’s my favourite moment in all the 32 sonatas – a theme that leaps out of its own chasm of counterpoint, and when finally freed rings with a kind of joy which should be impossible after the arioso but somehow isn’t. And because the fugue theme is really the opening bars of the entire sonata, the sonata has an open-ended, cyclic form, with the basic movement over the entire piece being from lyricism (the opening) to hope (the final bars).
MVT I
EXPOSITION
00:00 – Theme 1
00:41 – Transition (a highly abstracted form of the melody that just preceded it)
01:05 – Theme (Group) 2
02:12 –DEVELOPMENT (Note how compressed it is, and how reliant on counterpoint)
03:03 – RECAPITULATION (Theme 1 is combined with the Transition theme in the LH)
05:59 – CODA
MVT II
06:24 – Scherzo
07:04 – Trio (Cleverly constructed out of large upward leaps and downward descents: Beethoven’s manuscript shows he struggled a lot working out of figuration of this section)
07:31 – Scherzo
08:13 – CODA/transition
MVT III
08:30 – INTRODUCTION
10:26 – ARIOSO (the melody is built from the downward gesture that opens the scherzo)
12:52 – FUGA I (The fugue subject is built from an ascending chain of fourths, and is derived from the sonata’s opening phrase. The countersubject is built from a descending chain of fourths.)
15:13 – ARIOSO (note how the melody is broken up, “sobbing”)
18:00 – FUGA II (The fugue subject is a straightforward inversion of the first fugue’s subject. If there was any doubt about the narrative structure of this movement Beethoven has marked this section wieder auflebend = again reviving, poi a poi di nuovo vivente = little by little with renewed vigour)
18:23 – The subject of the first fugue enters the fray in the lowest voice, in diminished form and with a different rhythmic emphasis. Immediately after, the first fugue subject also enters in the top voice, but this time in augmented form.
18:48 – A double diminuition of the first fugue subject is introduced, with a relaxing of the tempo which generates the effect of a gradual *increase* in tempo
18:53 – The subject of the second fugue enters in middle voice.
19:01 – The subject of the first fugue enters in bass. Effectively two voices left. The double diminuition becomes transformed into a decorative figure in RH.
19:15 – FINALE: Homophonic chorale. The theme escapes.
https://wn.com/Beethoven_Sonata_No.31_In_A_Flat_Major,_Op.110_(Lortie,_Siirala,_Kovacevich)
The most warmly lyrical of all of Beethoven’s late sonatas, and probably my favourite of all 32.
Why? Well, to start with the obvious: In a late sonata, where you’d expect ambiguity, radical structural innovation, gnarled counterpoint – a conventional 1st movement, with a theme so simple and unadorned [0:18] its only warrant, really, is its beauty. The development is not just simple but consciously minimalist, and the shift to and from E Maj in the recapitulation [3:36; 4:09] is exquisitely beautiful.
There is also the structural tightness of the sonata. The opening bars of the sonata become the subject of the first fugue in the last movement, and, in an inverted form, the subject of the second fugue also. The opening phrase of the 2nd movement scherzo [6:24] also becomes transformed into the arioso of the final movement [10:26]. So Beethoven does not just shift the focus of the sonata form from first movement to last, or even use the final movement to unify the other two – in this sonata, the final movement is where the themes presented in other two really take flight, and the final movement is almost entirely built around material already presented.
Also, that last movement. It features the most sophisticated use of counterpoint of all 32 sonatas: not because the contrapuntal writing is ingenious (which it is, but Sonatas No.28 + 29 have got that too), but because the counterpoint is used (maybe for the first time in musical history) as part of a dramatic narrative. The final movement is basically a struggle between the arioso theme, which is not merely sad but crushingly hopeless (dolente = painful, aching, ermattet = exhausted) to the point of its literally breaking up the second time it’s presented, and the fugue, which radiates an inner strength and consolation.
In the end, the fugue wins, but in an extraordinary way. The second fugue does not merely achieve a triumphant shape: it burns itself out of existence. As the texture thickens and intensifies with inversions and simultaneous presentations of augmentations and diminuitions [57:30], suddenly there are just two voices duelling in ecstasy [57:53, with the shift to 2 voices at 58:05], incessantly reaching higher, and then suddenly there is just one voice, the main theme pouring out in a great chorale [58:19]. It’s my favourite moment in all the 32 sonatas – a theme that leaps out of its own chasm of counterpoint, and when finally freed rings with a kind of joy which should be impossible after the arioso but somehow isn’t. And because the fugue theme is really the opening bars of the entire sonata, the sonata has an open-ended, cyclic form, with the basic movement over the entire piece being from lyricism (the opening) to hope (the final bars).
MVT I
EXPOSITION
00:00 – Theme 1
00:41 – Transition (a highly abstracted form of the melody that just preceded it)
01:05 – Theme (Group) 2
02:12 –DEVELOPMENT (Note how compressed it is, and how reliant on counterpoint)
03:03 – RECAPITULATION (Theme 1 is combined with the Transition theme in the LH)
05:59 – CODA
MVT II
06:24 – Scherzo
07:04 – Trio (Cleverly constructed out of large upward leaps and downward descents: Beethoven’s manuscript shows he struggled a lot working out of figuration of this section)
07:31 – Scherzo
08:13 – CODA/transition
MVT III
08:30 – INTRODUCTION
10:26 – ARIOSO (the melody is built from the downward gesture that opens the scherzo)
12:52 – FUGA I (The fugue subject is built from an ascending chain of fourths, and is derived from the sonata’s opening phrase. The countersubject is built from a descending chain of fourths.)
15:13 – ARIOSO (note how the melody is broken up, “sobbing”)
18:00 – FUGA II (The fugue subject is a straightforward inversion of the first fugue’s subject. If there was any doubt about the narrative structure of this movement Beethoven has marked this section wieder auflebend = again reviving, poi a poi di nuovo vivente = little by little with renewed vigour)
18:23 – The subject of the first fugue enters the fray in the lowest voice, in diminished form and with a different rhythmic emphasis. Immediately after, the first fugue subject also enters in the top voice, but this time in augmented form.
18:48 – A double diminuition of the first fugue subject is introduced, with a relaxing of the tempo which generates the effect of a gradual *increase* in tempo
18:53 – The subject of the second fugue enters in middle voice.
19:01 – The subject of the first fugue enters in bass. Effectively two voices left. The double diminuition becomes transformed into a decorative figure in RH.
19:15 – FINALE: Homophonic chorale. The theme escapes.
- published: 06 Feb 2017
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Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15 // BRAHMS
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This short and beautiful waltz is Johannes Brahms' most popular works from his Sixteen Waltzes Op. 39
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- published: 09 Mar 2016
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