Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 3

Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 3

by | Dec 20, 2017

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

Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 2

by | Nov 10, 2017

After a first Prelude that paid tribute to Bach and followed a clear tonal structure in C major, Chopin strikes hard in terms of destabilization with a dark number two, with a tortuous harmonic course and a quest for ambiguity that evokes Brahms’ late intermezzos. One...
Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 1

Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 1

by | Nov 1, 2017

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...