Seven Fantasies for piano (Fantasien), No. 2: Intermezzo, Op. 116 No. 2
This guide follows Brahms’s Seven Fantasies for piano (Fantasien), No. 2: Intermezzo, Op. 116 No. 2 (1892) in one part.
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Follow all 4 sections as they play
: 0:02–4:10
in 3/4: a meditative, halting of two short notes and a longer one, shaped by the falling third. Then the metre changes to 3/8 for a fleeting, shadowy central , marked (not too fast). The 3/4 with the melody varied in A major, and then the opening comes back, now decorated with grace notes.
- A Section--: 3/4
- 3/8
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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