Harmonic structure and performance in some passages of Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in F minor

This document examines some passages in Frederic Chopin’s fourth Ballade, Op. 52 and identifies its consistent disruption of the expected tonal energies of the I-V-I triangle. Examples based on Schenkerian analysis show how the dominant becomes delayed and loses its energy, revealing consistent and...

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Main Author: Yu, Libby
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27097