Chopin's Raindrop
Frédéric Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude, Op 28, No. 15
Song Analysis/Essay
Intro
Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer, the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910, and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved, instantly being used in many orchestra’s and was one of the most favoured instruments and one of the most used in pieces of the time.
Song meaning
Chopin was extremely talented with the piano and very skillful with not only writing for it but …show more content…
Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external …show more content…
t's structure unlike many other preludes has a very clear Ternary form structure with a coda at the end to finish the piece nicely. Section A of the piece is written in Db, while section B is written enharmonically (meaning it involves tones of identical pitch yet are written differently in order of the key’s occurrence), in C# minor. Although it is in Ternary form the piece can be split into 4 parts. The Coda, A, B, and A again.
Ternary form
Ternary form, simply put, is a way of structuring a piece of music. It is usually found in classical music. Ternary form is a three part structure. The first and third parts are identical, or very nearly identical, while the second part is sharply contrasting. For this reason, ternary form is often represented as ABA. The contrasting second section is often known as a trio.
Melody and Rhythm
Just like it’s name, ‘Raindrop’, throughout the piece sustained notes are used to act as the continuous raindrops falling helping visualise the story the song is trying to tell. During the piece such as in the first bar, Chopin uses descending notes and arpeggio's (a type of broken chord, played in separate notes rather than in sync) to represent falling raindrops. He also uses septuplets and turns to create similar
Song Analysis/Essay
Intro
Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer, the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910, and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved, instantly being used in many orchestra’s and was one of the most favoured instruments and one of the most used in pieces of the time.
Song meaning
Chopin was extremely talented with the piano and very skillful with not only writing for it but …show more content…
Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external …show more content…
t's structure unlike many other preludes has a very clear Ternary form structure with a coda at the end to finish the piece nicely. Section A of the piece is written in Db, while section B is written enharmonically (meaning it involves tones of identical pitch yet are written differently in order of the key’s occurrence), in C# minor. Although it is in Ternary form the piece can be split into 4 parts. The Coda, A, B, and A again.
Ternary form
Ternary form, simply put, is a way of structuring a piece of music. It is usually found in classical music. Ternary form is a three part structure. The first and third parts are identical, or very nearly identical, while the second part is sharply contrasting. For this reason, ternary form is often represented as ABA. The contrasting second section is often known as a trio.
Melody and Rhythm
Just like it’s name, ‘Raindrop’, throughout the piece sustained notes are used to act as the continuous raindrops falling helping visualise the story the song is trying to tell. During the piece such as in the first bar, Chopin uses descending notes and arpeggio's (a type of broken chord, played in separate notes rather than in sync) to represent falling raindrops. He also uses septuplets and turns to create similar