Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
This guide follows Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 (1839) in one part.
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Follow all 7 sections as they play
– 0:03–7:11
A quiet, rocking in F major opens the piece over repeated notes, with a gentle melody marked sotto voce. Then the mood is broken by the , a stormy outburst in A minor. After a the opening melody , now with variations. The comes back, and an passage follows. In the the first melody is echoed once more, in A minor, and the piece fades away in a other than the one it started in.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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