This piece’s coda is interrupted by two measures of an unaccompanied right hand melody, marked slentando, that begins “tied pickup B-flat, A-flat, G-flat, down to C, up to F.” This piece’s composer apocryphally improvised it while dreaming that he was drowning in a lake. This piece’s middle section in the enharmonic parallel C-sharp minor uses low, sotto voce quarter note dyads to evoke the plainchant its composer heard at a monastery in Valldemossa. This piece opens with the slurred, sostenuto 4/4 melody “dotted eighth note (*) F, sixteenth note D-flat, low half note A-flat” over a dominant pedal that is respelled in its middle section. This longest piece in its composer’s Opus 28 was written during a vacation in Majorca with George Sand. For 10 points, name this Chopin prelude whose repeated A-flat evokes a type of weather. ■END■
ANSWER: the “Raindrop” prelude [or Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude No. 15 in D-flat major; or Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat major; or Frédéric Chopin’s Opus 28, Number 15; prompt on Prelude No. 15 or Prelude in D-flat major]
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