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[The piece played is Chopin's Prelude no. 2 in A minor, op. 28]This piece for the piano begins with the left hand alone in a rhythmic ostinato figure. The use chromaticism makes this opening tonally ambig...

The melodic phrases are predominantly balanced and conjunct. There is additionally melodic ornamentation, such as appoggiaturas (grace notes). There is also some chromatic movement. The harmonic progressi...

The tonic key of the piece is A minor, which reflects the sombre mood of the piece and sombre meaning of the lyrics. This is first confirmed by the perfect cadence in bars 3-4 and again in bars 9-10. At b...

What is texture?Simply put, texture is a way of describing how many layers apiece of music has. Simply put, texture can be thick or thin. A Thick texturehas lots of layers and a thin tex...

A V-I cadence is a perfect cadence or a cadence that sounds finished. Many works finish with a perfect cadence. If you're in the key of C major you count the fifth note in the scale which is a G and creat...