F. Chopin : Nocturne op. 9 no. 1 in B flat minor (Rubinstein)

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Recommends BobRodes · 2020-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Help with sixteenth tuplet with a 9 under”

Strictly speaking, your piece's nine "Little notes" are to fit into the space of two eighth notes, because that's what's not taken up by other notes in the measure. When you write the number like that, that's what you're saying, that those notes are to fit into that space so to speak. Here's another example: [LINK] In the third bar, you have 11 8th notes in the space given for six of them, and in the fourth bar, there are 22 8th notes in the space for 12 of them. So, if you will, they are almost 16th notes but not quite. Now, these asymmetric runs aren't usually to be understood as having to be rigidly in tempo. You will usually take a little extra time to fit them all in, doing whatever sou

Cites BobRodes · 2014-05 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Is there a less clunky word for a single note or a run of single notes?”

At least in piano music, a "run" is a series of notes that is typically for decorative purposes. You'll often see a run written as a group of smaller notes, not necessarily exactly in time. If the notes are doubled at the octave, they will be a run of octaves. Look at Chopin's Op. 9 No. 1 Nocturne: You will notice in the second and third full bars that he takes the opening theme and "improvises" on it or decorates it. This is a run (although he didn't write the notes smaller here). If the notes are more part of the music itself (part of the thematic material), the more common term is "passage". In the case of the music you show, I would call these an octave passage, or if I wanted to make it

Cites user34288 · 2019-11 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Can accidentals be seen as a temporary change in scale?”

Just wondering if accidentals in music can be seen as a temporary change in scale. There's a lot of scales that have just one note difference, so they sound good when they're interchanged temporarily. For example, Phrygian to natural minor is just a one note difference, Dorian to natural minor is also just a one note difference, and so on. For instance, in Chopin's Nocturne Op 9 No 1 in B♭ minor [this video] in the first measure there's an accidental on the fourth note. But it's really just a change from B-flat natural minor to B-flat harmonic minor, which has the A note, which isn't in the natural minor. [LINK] So when there's an accidental in music does it usually indicate that there was a temp

Cites Pierre 2001 · 2023-09 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Is this note in Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1, a Bb or an Ab?”

In the original edition of Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1, there is an Ab in bar 5 (6 if the anacrusis is counted) as the 4th note of the left hand: [LINK] However, somebody6's transcription on MuseScore [LINK] shows a Bb in that place: [LINK] Is it correct to play the Ab or the Bb? If I open up the piano keyboard on that bar, I see that the 4th note lines up with a Bb key: [LINK] Rubinstein's recording plays the Ab: Is this a mutated note? Is it correct to play the Ab or the Bb?