Path 03
Calm classical music
Twelve slow, quiet pieces, from Chopin's lullaby to Pärt's Fratres.
Chopin → Liszt → Wagner → Debussy → Massenet → Fauré → Grainger → Delius → Vaughan Williams → Rachmaninoff → Pärt
Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
This guide follows Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 (1870) in one part (sonata form).
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The A begins the piece softly, like a melody waking slowly at first light. Variants of it follow, and then it . A of shorter B themes starts next, and then the themes (K). The long reaches its peak at the point marked N2 breakthrough. The brings the themes back. In the the A melody comes round once more before the final chord.
- : A
- : A variants
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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