interesting discovery about chopin preludes!

[imbetter]

the preludes go up in the number of sharps as they progess and they use the relative minor for the previous major key signature.

example: prelude 1: c major, prelude 2: e minor, prelude 3: g major, prelude 4: e minor. ect...

who else new about this?

i find it quite interesting

[bearzinthehood]

duh?

[counterpoint]

Yes, that's interesting. Bach's Preludes & Fuges are ordered chromatically ascending.

Now look at the keys of Chopin's Etudes op.10:  

C a    E c#    Gb eb    C   F      f Ab       Eb c  

(the C F looks a bit out of order in this system   )

Chopin seems to like parallel keys.

 

[steve_m]

f

[counterpoint]

duh?

Thanks God, there's wikipedia, so one can look for what  is the meaning of "duh" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duh


 "So OK, I was totally like, you know, 'I have no idea' or something!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak

[ramseytheii]

the preludes go up in the number of sharps as they progess and they use the relative minor for the previous major key signature.

example: prelude 1: c major, prelude 2: e minor, prelude 3: g major, prelude 4: e minor. ect...

who else new about this?

i find it quite interesting

Be sure to remember that just because Prelude no.2 starts with an e in the bass, doesn't make it "e minor."

Walter Ramsey

[mikey6]

Well, at least comment like these sort of prove he's only 12.

[imbetter]

Be sure to remember that just because Prelude no.2 starts with an e in the bass, doesn't make it "e minor."

Walter Ramsey

i meant a minor

[jre58591]

i meant a minor

then you should have corrected your post with the modify button. it looks a little like this if you dont already know:

[nicco]

 

[counterpoint]

Well, at least comment like these sort of prove he's only 12.

Every age has it's own strangeness 

If you're young, you make discoveries all the time.

If you get older, you often think, things are obvious - but they are not!