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Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitrievich : 24 Preludes and Fugues No.22 g-moll Op.87-22

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Music ID : 21843
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:pieces
Total Playing Time:5 min 30 sec
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Author : Yamamoto, Akihisa

Last Updated: January 9, 2021
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

The melody of the quiet yet tense Prelude (Moderato non troppo, completed February 17, 1951) is dominated by a pulsating "iambic prime" divided into continuous two-note groups, and its monotone style could be described as etude-like. While the preceding Prelude in B-flat major, also prelude-like, featured shifts in mood due to changes in accompaniment patterns, this piece, despite exchanges between melody and accompaniment voices, is filled with a uniformly dim atmosphere throughout.

The Fugue (4 voices, Moderato, completed February 18, 1951), based on a simple and lyrical theme in triple meter, seems to have evoked Russian folk songs for Soviet audiences of the time. The counter-subject, consisting of eighth-note passages, appears to closely accompany the narrative-like theme, seemingly dedicated solely to an accompanying role.

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