Sublteties I never noticed in Chopin
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As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on the Chopin Op 6 #1 Mazurka.
He does some really interesting things with meter and harmonies, which, if you're not paying attention, you'll miss.
For example, in the first telling of the theme, it's all dotted rhythms in the descending figure here. And then, in the last statement, it's not dotted.
Then, in the final measures of that theme, he changes from minor to major.
Then he does the "I'm messing with your head, and I'm going to mess with the rhythm again" thing again.
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Nice finding!
What I hate - as a player, not as a listener - is if he transforms something as simple as
into
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Chopin will screw with things that the listener will never notice/appreciate/care about - just to give piano teachers something to point out that the student neglected.
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@mark said in Sublteties I never noticed in Chopin:
@klaus Now I know why I suck at piano. How the fuck does one count that?
The point is to not count that.
If you play it "mathematically correct", then it sucks.
Those lines need to "float" over the accompaniment without any regard to tempo, yet you need to magically be done at exactly the right time. I suck at this.