My review: Romance Nº 1 is a piece in three sections, with an accompanied melody texture and a tranquil tempo, creating an atmosphere of calm and reflection. The thematic unity and the constant accompaniment of arpeggios give the piece a sense of cohesion, with a second development section and a third recapitulation section. In fact, it is constructed from a harmonic progression (accompaniment) upon which small variations on the main theme melody are layered. Gimenez's social links: Facebook YouTube SoundCloud Enjoy "Romance Nº 1" , performed by Carlos Marín Trigo:
Ronald Karle - Meditation Fourteen -The Lost World
As in most of the previous meditations, we have a melody accompanied by a design in the form of arpeggios at a slow but steady pace.
The peculiarity of this meditation is that it seems to be constructed from the accompaniment, which is formed by a harmonic rhythmic pattern (and I would dare say melodic, in the sense of how the notes that make up each arpeggio are arranged, although it is not a true melody). This divides the piece into two sections of 25 bars each (I'm not counting the coda), in which this pattern is repeated exactly (we could say that there are hints of repetitions in smaller sections, but they are not exact repetitions as in the ones we are discussing).
Regarding the melodic material of the right hand, we can establish that in the first 25-bar section, there are three subsections of eight bars each, starting from bar 2, since the first is only introductory. We'll name each subsection a, b, and c.
Measure 25 indicates a repetition, starting in measure 2, of the entire section.
Once repeated, the previous subsection b appears, linking the first and second sections.
This second section is made up of two subsections: a first, a variant of the first subsection (a) of the previous section, which we'll call a', in which the theme appears with double notes and chords, and a second subsection, a variant of subsection c of the first section, which we'll call c'. A repeat sign takes us back to the beginning of this section (a' - c'), after which a short coda leads us to the end of the piece.
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