Prometheus, S. 99
This guide follows Liszt’s Prometheus, S. 99 (1855) in one part.
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Follow all 8 sections as they play
ed 0:11–12:15
A bleak, forceful opens the piece, including a passage built on diminished seventh chords (tense, unstable chords) and a . Then the begins. Follow it as a pattern of agitation and tenderness: the sections the timeline calls A, B and C come round a second , and a lyrical borrows music from the chorus for the freed Prometheus. The to the restless music of the opening.
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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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