Chopin's A-B-D-A: Music Of The Romantic Period

The way that I feel that this piece is compared to other keyboard works what we have listen to was that you can tell that mostly its homophonic like most of the other piano pieces that I have heard. You can hear a soft dynamic mood like Beethoven work. You can hear how freely it feels by the sounds so you know they put their soul into it and was being creative. What I think is different is that the piano piece is in a mazurka with a rubato unlike the other pieces. This piano piece also is A-B-A’-B-A’-C-C-D-A while the others were A-B-A.
The last thing I feel that is different is the shifts between major and minor, modal harmonies, with chromaticism. Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. Some genres of piano composition that were new to the Romantic period I believe were the modern piano style, short lyric piano piece, and the mazurka. The reason why Chopin is considered the ‘poet of the piano’ is because his music, rooted in the heart of Romanticism, made this era the piano’s golden age. Another reason why I believe he is called that is because he was most famous for his Nocturnes, which people at his time said he made the piano sing with these. …show more content…
He greatly revolutionized the way a piano can sound in terms of beauty and ethereal quality. The term rubato is a musical term referring to expressive and rhythmic freedom by a slight speeding up and then slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist or the conductor. I believe that the performers of Chopin’s music use this technique but at first it was hard to determine which rubato he used. There were two different types of rubato concurrently in use during the early romantic era: the earlier rubato style and the later rubato