There’s always a heroine playing the ivories in my heart,
she plays Schubert’s Impromptu in A-flat major
beautifully
tonight – light-flashing notes, rolling whirlpools
encircling
a melody in soft gilded brown
I follow in dance, turning whorls twirling, move to
and
fro, up and down, weave musical lines in my heart
until
circles heave in emotion, reach a peak and melody
gilded
in soft velvet brown breathes tranquil serenity
My heart’s secret place engulfs everyday life,
revels in
memory of every great love, assigns delight to
everyone,
each ray of sunshine, all moonbeams safe in a place
where no blight of being can touch – a Platonic
world
Perfect of ideas where beauty remains an ideal
calling the dreamer forth - briefly adorning the
face of every smiling human being…
No.
4 in A-flat major
The
fourth Impromptu, in A-flat major,
actually begins in A-flat minor,
though
this is written as A-flat major with accidentals. The opening theme
consists
of cascading arpeggios followed by murmuring chordal responses.
These
are repeated and developed, going through C-flat major and B minor
before
finally reaching A-flat major. A subordinate theme is accompanied by
the
arpeggio figure, varied with triplets. In the central section, in C-sharp minor,
the
arpeggios are replaced by a chordal accompaniment venturing into the
major
mode towards its conclusion, but reverts to the minor. The opening
section
is repeated and the work ends in A-flat major. The tempo marking
is
Allegretto.
(D899/4) in A flat major]
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