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Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 4

18373 min

This guide follows Chopin’s Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 4 (1837) in one part.

Recording: Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

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Follow all 7 sections as they play

0:02–3:31

A short circles on an unsettled note before the home arrives. The bitter begins with section A, ornamented with florid decoration. The middle sections, B and C, are more lyrical, and in C the music keeps heading toward B major. The then and pulls it back to C-sharp minor. The comes back, louder, in A′, and the ends in uncertainty.

  1. A

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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