Re: Unanswered Question #1

On Apr 3, 10:55 am, LJS <ljsche...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > Chopin Etude Op. 25#12 in C minor switches near the end to the tonic
> > major of C major and ends on a C chord.

> I am not familiar with the Chopin Etude (is that #24 instead?

It is the 24th of all the etudes he composed. Normally listed as Op.
25 #12.

> I saw it
> listed that way in one of the sites I searched and it was listed in
> C#min)

It's C minor.

> and have not been able to find a score. Does it extend the
> Picardy Chord concept or is it only the last chord? I would like more
> details on what is happening here or a site that would have a copy of
> this score for me to take a look.

If not available from an accessible library (we are lucky here in San
Diego County), "Reply to author"

> What chords seems to have been interchanged or borrowed in the
> Beethoven [Sonata 23]? That is the real puzzle I am trying to solve. Can
you help
> with this?

I seem to remember the music going from F#minor to the tonic or
relative major at the end of one or both of the first and third
movements -- I'll check the score if you say that is not the case.

Neil Miller, author of The Piano Lessons Book
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