Chopin's Prelude in F# Major

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By Spider on Sunday, June 9, 2013 - 12:51 pm:

    Mark, are you there? I don't know where else to ask this.

    What is the deal with the repeated e natural that invades Chopin's Prelude in F# Major and sticks out like a sore thumb? Even when it resolves, the resolution isn't satisfying and it just sounds wrong.

    I thought it was just me and my poor playing, but even the greats don't make that note sound good to me. What am I not getting? It feels like there has to be a reason behind Chopin's choice for that e natural, and I don't see it.


    My favorite performance of this piece is by Grigory Sokolov. http://youtu.be/aLMjl3zDtLE


By ... on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 06:34 pm:

    I don't have a problem with the E-natural.

    Maybe it's the E# in the left hand grinding up against it that bothers you? I seem to remember thinking that the left hand dissonances were what really required artistry.

    Try playing the piece without the E-natural. It sounds pretty bland.

    Try playing it with E# instead of E-Natural. Harmonically that would probably be typical of a lesser composer. To me changing it to E# makes it sound like something from Captain & Tennille.

    Technically I think he's using the E-Natural as a leading tone to D#, to begin a modulation to B-Major, but Chopin being Chopin he instead moves to the relative G# Minor. So gloomy.

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