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Chopin's piano music
Nocturne, étude, mazurka, scherzo, ballade, polonaise, waltz: Chopin's genres in twelve works, in the order he wrote them.
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Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
This guide follows Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4 (1833) in one part.
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The four- is the music you will hear again at the very end. The (A) is a slow, songlike melody in A minor, with more contrast between soft and loud than in the other mazurkas of the set. In the B section the changes to A major and the music takes on the manner of a . The is back with the of A, and the ends with the opening four , played softly by the left hand.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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