"My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them."
AUTHOR: Johann Sebastian Bach
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Music is used for some people as a symbol of status or a way
"Music is used for some people as a symbol of status or a way
to be popular and for them has little to do with the art itself."
WALTZ OP. 64 NO. 2
C# MINOR
(Tempo giusto)
Artur Rubinstein, Piano
with sheet music
Theme 2 ("B"):
Theme 3 ("C"):
COMPOSER:
WALTZ OP. 64, NO. 2
C-SHARP MINOR
(Tempo giusto)
C-SHARP MINOR
(Tempo giusto)
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WALTZ OP. 64 NO. 2
C# MINOR
(Tempo giusto)
Artur Rubinstein, Piano
with sheet music
C# MINOR
(Tempo giusto)
(Tempo giusto)
Artur Rubinstein, Piano
with pictures of the pianist
This is a term that describes the rate of
speed (tempo) that a piece is played at.
Chopin transformed the waltz, music originally
meant to be used by the masses in ballroom
dancing, into a style of undanceable music
which, with its idealized form of refine-
ment and nuance, was suited for the
aristocracy and for private sittings.
meant to be used by the masses in ballroom
dancing, into a style of undanceable music
which, with its idealized form of refine-
ment and nuance, was suited for the
aristocracy and for private sittings.
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This waltz in C-sharp minor, strikingly Slavic in tone
and often likened to a mazurka, was published
in 1847 and is the second work of Chopin's
Opus 64 and the companion to the famous
Minute Waltz (Opus 64 no.1).
MINUTE WALTZ
OPUS 64, NO. 1
The piece consists
of three main themes in
the overall form layout of:
A B C B A B.
Theme 1 ("A"):
A tempo giusto: with a walking pace feel, but one
hardly ever hears this work played without a heavy
dose of rubato. This primary melody has, as critic
James Huneker called it, a "veiled melancholy"
which is unrivaled among Chopin's works.
A tempo giusto: with a walking pace feel, but one
hardly ever hears this work played without a heavy
dose of rubato. This primary melody has, as critic
James Huneker called it, a "veiled melancholy"
which is unrivaled among Chopin's works.
Theme 2 ("B"):
Più mosso (faster): a faster theme similar to a
agitated perpetual motion, stated in running,
with all harmony in the left hand.
with all harmony in the left hand.
Theme 3 ("C"):
Più lento (slower): a sostenuto in a radiant tonic
major episode with a slower theme in D-flat major
(D-flat major, enharmonic equivalent to C-sharp
major). Besides the slower general pace providing
a contemplative change of mood, the melody is in
quarter notes except for a few flourishes in eighth
notes, giving this section the quality of an interlude
(which some think it is rather than another theme)
before concluding with the dramatic and haunt-
ing restatement of the second Theme "B"
instead of the usual opening theme.
ing restatement of the second Theme "B"
instead of the usual opening theme.