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Haydn, Franz Joseph : Sonate für Klavier Nr.51 Mov.2 Adagio

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Music ID : 32230
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:sonata
Total Playing Time:4 min 00 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Ooi, Kazurou

Last Updated: April 3, 2025
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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.

This second movement can be considered an operatic aria. The performer needs to differentiate between the vocal part and the orchestral part. This will be explained at the beginning. At the beginning, the vocal part extends from the anacrusis to E-flat, D, C, B. The chord on the second beat, B and A-flat, should be conceived as something like a woodwind instrument, thus requiring a change in timbre. Then, from the last 32nd note (B-flat, D) of the second beat of bar 1, the vocal line returns in bar 2 with F, E-flat, D, C. After the C, E-flat and G should again be considered orchestral instruments. In this way, one melodic line is assumed to be vocal, and parts that are clearly not considered vocal should be thought of as different instruments.

In bar 11, the composer's score indicates fortissimo. The sixteenth notes in the left hand starting from the second beat of bar 9 represent some kind of instrument, but the melodic line in the treble clef above it can be considered either vocal or instrumental. In any case, even though fortissimo is written in bar 11, it is safer not to make it excessively loud, but rather to give it only a slight increase in volume, imagining an orchestral tutti.

Such sections should never be played marcato, articulating each note distinctly. Instead, use the pedal and conceive of them as a thick, layered orchestral passage.

Writer: Ooi, Kazurou

Author : Saitoh, Noriko

Last Updated: February 9, 2020
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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.

The second movement, Adagio, is in 6/8 time and primarily consists of alternating sections in C minor and its relative major, E-flat major, which is the same key as the first movement. Both sections, regardless of key, are characterized by ascending leaping figures. The concluding part of this movement repeats the first inversion of the E-flat major tonic chord, and after a fermata on its final note, leads attacca into the next movement.

Writer: Saitoh, Noriko
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