The waltz-like accompaniment gently emphasizes the 12Ĩ meter, 12 beats to the measure subdivided into four groups of 3 beats each. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.Ī sonorous foundation for the melodic line is provided by the widely spaced notes in the accompaniment, connected by the damper pedal. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. When musicians talk about a key, they are referring to a set of notes that all fit together as a musical scale. The nocturne opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano (quietly), containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. It is 34 measures long and written in 12Ĩ meter, having a similar structure to a waltz.
This well-known nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. 27 and the concentrated drama of the Scherzo in B flat minor. Problems playing this file? See media help.Ĭhopin composed his best-known Nocturne in E ♭ major, Op. It manifested itself la Janus, with two faces: the deep-felt lyricism of the Nocturnes, Op.
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