![]() Here’s my MIDI visualization of Arthur Rubinstein’s recording.Ĭhopin destabilizes its meter right in the first bar, because it starts on beat three rather than beat one where you’d expect. I thought that a “ nocturne” was supposed to evoke the night, or dreams or something, but no, it just means “a piece of music meant to be played at night,” like in a salon setting. Chopin’s Nocture Op 9 No 1 in B-flat Minor is particularly hip.Īll this metrical instability is easier to parse over a steady beat, so I made this remix:Ĭlassical Remixes Volume One by Ethan Hein He isn’t as overtly “jazzy” as Debussy or Ravel, but his music shares many of the qualities of jazz that I like: miniature-scale forms densely packed with rhythmic and harmonic excitement, in the service of organic-sounding melodies. ![]() ![]() Aside from Bach, Chopin is my favorite dead white European male composer.
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