He made his music his own by putting his stamp on it. They both are have a night feel about them, they are slow, and they are relaxing.įrederic Chopin was a well known composer that was well accomplished in his composing. There is a correlation between nocturnes and dinner music for a reception.
Nocturnes have the easy listening characteristic about them. What made it beautiful was the fact that it was such an easy, pleasant piece to the ear. (Wikipedia)Ĭhopin’s piece was an enjoyable piece to listen to. This piece has a range of dynamics, it starts out soft and then it has loud, forceful dynamics in the middle, and it ends with soft dynamics. The rhythm in this piece is varied the rhythmic figure is not repeated like in the baroque period. The mood starts out with a nocturnal feeling in the beginning of the piece, it gets passionate in the middle, and it goes back to a nocturnal feeling at the end. It is a homophonic piece that has a varied mood. The form of this piece is miniature meaning that it is short and it has an intimate audience. According to Chopinproject, the word nocturne literally means “song of the night.” This is why the pieces that he composed have that dark, melancholy feeling. Chopin composed this when he was twenty and it is full of melancholy. It is in 12/8 time, twelve beats to the measure. I choose Chopin’s “Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.9 No.2.” This piece is a nocturne written for the piano. However, he transformed the form by using harmonic imagination and melodic distinction, making it sound much different. Oxford Music Online stated that Chopin borrowed the “nocturne” idea from John Field. According to Oxford music online, his pieces had romantic stories and nicknames to go along with them, but he himself believed that music should exist in its absolute form which is shown through the titles that he gave his various pieces. He wrote many piano pieces, polonaises, nocturnes, and etudes. This made him ill and struggle for years. This disease killed him later on in life. Soon after he started his public career, early signs of tuberculosis showed up. After he finished school, he decided to focus on composing and he got a public career to do so. While Chopin was a student at the school of Warsaw, he composed pieces and gave concerts. He was both a composer and a pianist from Poland. Frederic Francois Chopin was one of the leading composers in the 19 th century.
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