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The B minor has been criticised for being too much in the etude vein.
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In the broadest sense of the word, every piece of music is an etude.
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Aside from a few rallentando places, the etude is to be played strictly in time.
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Miss Flora Cantwell launched into an etude.
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The first prelude, which, like the first etude, begins in C, has all the characteristics of an impromptu.
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Chopin needs no such clangorous padding in this etude, which gains by legitimate strokes the most startling contrasts.
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Its agitated, whirring, unharmonized triplets are strangely disquieting, and can never be mistaken for mere etude passage work.
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It is easy to lose the way, to focus on one thing when the etude is about something else.
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Compare with this etude the introduction to the Capriccio in B minor, with orchestra, by Felix Mendelssohn, first page.
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Pianists usually take the first part too fast, the second too slowly, transforming this poetic composition into an etude.
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Von Bulow writes cannily enough, that the second study in A minor being chromatically related to Moscheles' etude, op.
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Riemann has his own ideas of the phrasing of the following one, the fifth and familiar "Black Key" etude.
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This etude is an exceedingly piquant composition, possessing for the hearer a wondrous, fantastic charm, if played with the proper insight.
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Keys and strings and vibrations of the air are but stimuli for the auditory experience which is the real nocturne or etude.
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What, indeed, despite the algebraic character of the tone-language, may not a lively fancy conjure out of, or, rather, into, this etude!
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This news, it is said, was the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes called the "Revolutionary."