MTO 20.4 Examples: David Kopp, On Performing Chopin ’s Barcarolle

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Example 1. Chopin, Barcarolle op. 60, formal structure (after Rink 1988, 197)

Example 2. Barcarolle, background sketch (Rink 1988, 197)

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Example 3. Barcarolle, introduction and beginning of theme A, measures 1–8

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

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Example 4. Barcarolle, continuation of theme A, measures 9–15

(Peters edition, ed. H. Scholtz, 1879)

Figure 1. Barcarolle, harmonic reduction, measures 1–24; shifting chordal identity of A

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Example 5. Barcarolle, theme A', measures 23–35

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

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Figure 2. Barcarolle, harmonic reduction, measures 24–39; continued shifting chordal identity of A /A

Example 6. Barcarolle, first transition and theme B(1), measures 35–51

(Schirmer edition, ed. C. Mikuli, 1895)

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Figure 3. Barcarolle, harmonic reduction, measures 39–51; series of tonicizations leading away from and back to A

major

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Example 7. Barcarolle, theme B(2), measures 62–70

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Figure 4. Barcarolle, similarities in themes’ first phrases: a), theme A; b), theme B(2); c), dolce sfogato theme

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

Example 8. Barcarolle, arrival on C major: second transition and dolce sfogato, measures 71–83

(Chopin Institute edition, ed. I. Paderewski, 1954)

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Figure 5. Barcarolle, harmonic reduction, measures 75–76, showing shifting chordal identity of E /F

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Example 9. Barcarolle, theme B(2)', measures 92–101

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

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Figure 6. Barcarolle, harmonic reduction, measures 96–101; further shifting intervallic identities of A

Example 10. Barcarolle, theme B(1)'', measures 103–11, with emphasized intervallic cadence

(Peters edition, ed. H. Scholtz, 1879)

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Example 11. Barcarolle, intervallic cadence with fz markings, measures 110–11

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

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Example 12. Barcarolle, coda, measures 113–116

(Henle Urtext edition, ed. E. Herttrich, 1978)

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