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Tchaikovsky, Pytr Il'ich : Les saisons - 12 Morceaux caracteristiques No.9 "La chasse" G-Dur

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Music ID : 22158
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:pieces
Total Playing Time:2 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Yamamoto, Akihisa

Last Updated: June 25, 2019
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

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.