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12. IV.
Hupka :

2. Prälude: Tonarten; ob Em–Hm; Em, Gd, Hm, Dd, Am. Nebennoten-Konstruktionen nach unten, nach oben, also weder 2, 3-teilig, sondern Terzen-Aufbau; 1 Quart im Motiv als Quint; über
I–VI–IV–II
V;
Modul. durch Umdeutung, hierauf Erhöhung, d–dis–e; Erhöhung gilt {15} also nicht einer II. in D, nicht einer I. in E, Vorsicht geboten!

© Transcription Robert Kosovsky, ed. Ian Bent, 2007, 2022-23


April 12, [1913]
Hupka :

Prelude No. 2: keys; whether E minor-B minor; E minor, G major, B minor, D major, A minor. Neighbor-note constructions, below and above, thus in neither two nor three sections, but constructed by [rising harmonic] thirds; 1 the fourth in the motive as a fifth; on
I–VI–IV–II
V;
Modulation as the result of harmonic re-interpretation, and [once D major has been reached,] D rising to Dě, rising to E; thus signifying {15} not II in D, not I in E – caution necessary!

© Translation Ian Bent, 2022-23


12. IV.
Hupka :

2. Prälude: Tonarten; ob Em–Hm; Em, Gd, Hm, Dd, Am. Nebennoten-Konstruktionen nach unten, nach oben, also weder 2, 3-teilig, sondern Terzen-Aufbau; 1 Quart im Motiv als Quint; über
I–VI–IV–II
V;
Modul. durch Umdeutung, hierauf Erhöhung, d–dis–e; Erhöhung gilt {15} also nicht einer II. in D, nicht einer I. in E, Vorsicht geboten!

© Transcription Robert Kosovsky, ed. Ian Bent, 2007, 2022-23


April 12, [1913]
Hupka :

Prelude No. 2: keys; whether E minor-B minor; E minor, G major, B minor, D major, A minor. Neighbor-note constructions, below and above, thus in neither two nor three sections, but constructed by [rising harmonic] thirds; 1 the fourth in the motive as a fifth; on
I–VI–IV–II
V;
Modulation as the result of harmonic re-interpretation, and [once D major has been reached,] D rising to Dě, rising to E; thus signifying {15} not II in D, not I in E – caution necessary!

© Translation Ian Bent, 2022-23

Footnotes

1 i.e. E reinterpreted as VI in G major, G as VI in B minor, and B as VI in D major. — Schenker’s diary for April 17 has the entry: “Ueber die Nebennoten in Chopins Prälude 2.” (“Concerning the neighbor-notes in Chopin's Prelude No. 2.”).