![]() Below is a quote of what he writes about this nocturne. Thank you Richard for suggesting Rothstein's book. What further baffles me is that when this exact subject returns, it is offset by half a bar relative to how the it appears the first time: ![]() Does anyone know (or have references to) analysis of this particular part of this nocturne, or other similar examples in Chopin or his contemporaries? I am quite surprised to find something like this in Chopin's music where phrases are usually demarcated by barlines this kind of "stream of consciousness" that ignores the usual "4-bar phrase" seems more characteristic of Schumann. However, they are not aligned relative to the barline, because it seems that the first phrase is 3.5 bars (regardless of whether you consider the first four notes a pickup or not). ![]() 1 consists of two phrases that each begin with "B A# G# F# D#". The main subject in Chopin's Nocturne Op.
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