Tchaikovsky, Pytr Il'ich : Les saisons - 12 Morceaux caracteristiques No.9 "La chasse" G-Dur
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Author : Yamamoto, Akihisa
Last Updated: June 25, 2019
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Time, time! The horn sounds.
Men prepared for the hunt
Are already on horseback at dawn,
And leashed hounds leap.
The epigraph is from Alexander Pushkin's Count Nulin (1825).
The sharp dotted notes and triplets found in the G major theme's phrase, along with the two-voice chords in the left-hand accompaniment, are clearly an imitation of hunting horns, traditionally found in Western classical music (and also seen in the epigraph poem). From this, Tchaikovsky expands on the idea, maintaining the rhythmic motif while developing the theme with a wide pianistic range. In the E minor middle section, although the atmosphere completely changes, creating a contrast with the main section, it is interesting that the triplets and dotted notes are maintained.
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