Tag: Great C major

• The devil’s(?) trill

  October 31, 2016

  Chamber music, Classical music, Keyboard, Piano music, Solo, Song, Vocal

  Great C major, Schubert, winterreise

  or, to move it into a more easily readable range: This is what happens near the opening of the Schubert B-flat Sonata D. 960; firstly, the opening melody – beautiful, serene – comes to rest on a chord of F when suddenly, from the bottom left hand of the keyboard, comes a long grumbling growl (see…