![]() ![]() So opting for a chromatic approach here makes the melody more fluent. You could also play a diatonic approach (Ab C Bb), but that would repeat the last note of the previous melody line. The most common explanation would be to see this as a circling double approach of Bb: you first play a note below (A), then one above (C) and then the target note in the middle (Bb). My first itch was to called this an Ab altered chord with a b9, but that would have been wrong (because the natural nine also appears)! So I would give two possible explanations: Consider that Chopin might have written this: X: 0īut, being Chopin, he made it much more interesting by adding the C, making the figure a double appoggiatura or changing tone.įor more on double appoggiatura, see Csus4, Csus2, C is there a name?, among others. ![]() The A on the downbeat is an accented chromatic tone leading the ear toward the Bb on beat 2. This is seen most clearly in the left hand plus the final two right-hand notes.Ĭhopin could have written the final three measures this way: X: 0 The basic harmony of the penultimate bar is Ab7 - that is, the dominant seventh ( V7) chord of Db major. 64, No.The bar is Ab7, but opens with a double appoggiatura around Bb. 1, “Minute” (Eva Sukova, piano)Īnd Lang Lang in a 2010 recording (02:16).įrédéric Chopin: Waltz No. Eva Sukova in a 1997 recording (01:33):įrédéric Chopin: Waltz No. Let’s listen to two performers on the faster and slower side. We did a survey of some 33 performances, from historical to modern and got speeds ranging from one minute and 33 seconds up to two minutes and 39 minutes. Even so, pianists do try and play this as fast as possible. Despite its tempo marking of ‘Molto vivace,’ the work would have to be played at the impossible speed of 420 quarter notes per minute. Often, though.Īlas, this is not to be so. Most people read it as a noun and took it as a waltz that should be performed in a minute (noun). His publisher, Breitkopf & Härtel, added a title on it to let people know that this was a very small, minute (adj.) waltz. ![]() Chopin was inspired by the antics of a small dog chasing its tail to write his Waltz No. ![]()
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