Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Prelude in C minor, Op. 28 No. 20
Frédéric Chopin (1,810–1,849)
Key C minor
Style Romantic
Roughly RCM 6 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6 · Henle 4
Focus prelude: one figure or texture sustained (varies)
What its lesson teaches
Study Chopin’s Prelude in C minor, Op. 28 No. 20: a chord on every beat, like a chorale. Bar 1 runs i–iv–V7–i; hear the dominant seventh, G–B–D–F, on its third beat, and listen for other seventh chords as the harmony darkens. At the keyboard: compare major, minor and dominant sevenths.
Technique C harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves Leading-note diminished-seventh arpeggio of C minor, hands together, 2 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 6
Sonatina in C major, Op. 20 No. 1: I. Allegro Suonata quarta: Fuga cromatica (L’organo suonarino, Op. 13) Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2 Octave Walk Shuffle Air avec variations (Aylesford Piece 16), Aylesford Pieces Minuet in E-flat major, WoO 82 Peacherine Rag Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15 Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4
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