Nänie, Op. 82
This guide follows Brahms’s Nänie, Op. 82 (1881) in one part.
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Follow all 3 sections as they play
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in D major. The oboe plays a long, flowing melody in 6/4, and the chorus takes it up in a gentle (voices entering one after another with the same tune). The B section, marked (more sustained), reaches Thetis rising from the sea to mourn her son. The music brightens to F-sharp major and turns more chordal. In A′ the opening material and D major , and Brahms draws out the next-to-last line, which says that even a sung by loved ones is splendid.
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- B
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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