
Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 3
For the first few Preludes of his cycle at least, Chopin follows a pattern where ordered pieces in the major keys alternate with chaotic and harmonically unstable explorations of the minor keys. By the way, if you haven’t read them, I suggest you check out my analysis...

Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 2
After a fairly common first Prelude, Chopin gets dark and bizarre in this fascinating number two.

Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 1
Welcome to The Rest is Harmony, a new music analysis blog run by Georges Dimitrov, composer and theorist, currently a faculty member of the Department of Music at Concordia University, in Montreal. Why this blog? The idea came first out of a passion for musical...