What is the musical term for...?

[Will Millar]

Hello Everyone

      Can anyone tell me what the musical term is for pieces like at the end of Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini or Piano Concerto No. 2 etc by Rachmaninov, where the left and right hands play the same chords in different inversions all the way down the keyboard - for example the left hand plays F then the right hand plays F, so everytime the left hand does two chords, the right hand does one chord in between the two left hand chords.

I'm not very good at explaining - so take a look at

https://muslib.mmv.ru/piano/rahm_rhaps.3.pdf

- page 28 -


Many Thanks

Will Millar

[Nordlys]

Alternating hands?

I don't know if there is a term for it, but it is a common effect in romantic piano music, like Liszt.

[faulty_damper]

I would call it a tremolo (tremor) which is the alteration on a note or notes that gives the effect of tension.  Related: octave tremolos (broken octaves), chord tremolos (semi broken chords).

[Will Millar]

Sorry - Perhaps I haven't made it very clear. Its on Page 28 the first 8 bars, not the last 8 or so.

Many Thanks

I hope I can shed some light on this.

Will

[april]

There are 2 things going on in those measures - parallelism and planing (had to dig out the theory books).