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Ballade No 2 in F Flashcards

1
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What type of piece is it?

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A character piece.

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2
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Where does the name ‘Ballade’ come from?

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Ballete- dance (Italian) ‘ballet style’.

Ballad- Medieval story.

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3
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What is the overall form of the piece?

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A, B, A, B, C, Codetta (taken from A).

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4
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What keys does the piece start and end in?

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Starts in F major and ends in A minor.

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5
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What does ‘Sotto Voce’ mean?

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‘Under the voice’.

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6
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How does the piece start?

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An anacrusis.

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7
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Does it start in the tonic or dominant key?

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Dominant until bar 3 then it moves to the tonic.

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8
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When is the first main rhythm introduced?

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Bar 1.1-1.4 in the RH.

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9
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When is the second main rhythm introduced?

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Bar 3.1-3.2 in the RH.

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10
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What is the chord pattern of bars 3-5?

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Bar 3: I, IV.
Bar 4: Ib, iiib, VI7, ii7b.
Bar 5: V7, I.

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11
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What is special about the second chord of bar 5?

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It’s a chord I with a third on the top, making it unstable.

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12
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What happens in section A in the bass line a lot and what effect does this have?

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Lots of monotonous notes (eg dominant and tonic pedals) creating tension as uses dissonance- a key feature of Chopin’s writing.

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13
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How many notes per hand are there in Section A?

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Usually, 2 creating 4 note chords.

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14
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What’s unusual about the phrasing?

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Chopin uses regular phrasing ending on perfect cadences.

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15
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Describe bars 9-16.

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They are identical to bars 1-8.

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16
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Describe the key changes in Section A.

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Bar 18.3- Am (V-I).
Bar 20.4- C (V-I).
Bar 24.4- C (V7-I).
Bar 29.1- F (V7-I).

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17
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What’s unusual about the chords in bar 32.2-31.1?

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The chords are V7- iiib. This makes it sound imperfect which is unusual.

18
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When does it modulate to Am and stay in Am in Section A?

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Bar 36.4- Am (V7-I).

19
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What are the unusual chords used in bar 38?

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iii9b-I in Am which sounds like a perfect cadence (alternative to a perfect cadence). This happens at the end of every bar until bar 44.

20
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Describe the last 6 bars of Section A.

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Bar 40-41- Rhythmic diminution (a key feature of Romantic music).
Bar 42- Falling major 3rds.
Bar 45- F major chord underneath a fermata with repeated A’s in the right hand creating tension and linking to section B.

21
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What are the main differences between Section A and B?

A

Different tempo
More extreme register
Note value change
Dynamic change

22
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What key is Section B in?

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Am which is the relative minor of the dominant (chord iii). This is a romantic feature to not modulate to conventional keys.

23
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What’s the left hand doing every other bar in Section B?

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Plays in octaves which is a romantic feature.

24
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Describe the first 12 bars of Section B (RH)?

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Disjunct rapid arpeggios followed by ascending broken chord figures.

25
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When at what key does it modulate from Am in Section B?

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Gm in bar 54.
Edim in bar 60.
Dm in bar 62.
Fm in bar 64.
Abm in bar 66.
26
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What Romantic feature used in the left-hand in bar 70?

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Low range ostinato.

27
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When do we return to Section A and what key are we in?

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Bar 82 in the key of F.

28
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What happens in bars 82-87?

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Exactly the same as bars 2-7.

29
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What keys does it modulate in the first return to section A?

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Bars 90-91: Am
Bars 92-92: F
Bars 93-94: Hint of Gm

30
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When is the chromatic passage in the return to section A?

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Bars 98-107 and there is no established key.

31
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What happens in bars 107-110?

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Rising atonal sequential pattern linking to section A.

32
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What are bars 110-114 like?

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Bars 9-14 but massively harmonised.

33
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What are bars 132 like?

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Imitation of bars 107-113 just a semitone lower.

34
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When does section B return and what is it like compared to the original section B?

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Returns in bar 140 and is very similar, replicating it in Dm.

35
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When does the link passage to C happen?

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Bar 156-167.

36
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Describe section C.

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Restless and jumpy, leaping all over the place.

37
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What happens in bars 178-179?

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New syncopated ideas which are repeated in bars 182-183.

38
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What happens in bars 183-190?

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It builds in intensity to the finale (crescendos into a rising sequence using the most of the piano).

39
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When does the codetta start?

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196.

40
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Describe the codetta.

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The brief return of section A with a monotonous tonic pedal (A) and is in Am. Final cadence in Am (V-I).

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