Eight Piano Pieces, No. 4: Intermezzo, Op. 76 No. 4
This guide follows Brahms’s Eight Piano Pieces, No. 4: Intermezzo, Op. 76 No. 4 (1878) in one part.
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Follow all 3 sections as they play
: 0:03–2:10
, B-flat major, 2/4. The melody has a Schumann-like shape, and each voice keeps its own rhythmic pattern, so the is intricate. The tune soon darkens, with nervous thirds and sixths in G minor. The Second Section is melancholy and partly polyphonic (made of independent melodic lines), and one German writer compares it to a . Then the Third Section begins.
- First Section
- Second Section
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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