Alla Cracovienne, Op. 7 (Piano Part)

It was first performed in public at the Norwich Festival, in England, on October 4, , where it achieved a most pronounced success, and has since been the most popular number in his concert list. There are circumstances which suggest the propriety of prefacing a study of its contents with a brief discussion of its title.

The term fantasia, though exceedingly venerable and once of excellent repute, has lost caste through being employed to designate showy but empty transcriptions of popular and operatic melodies for the piano-forte or violin. Paderewski does not use it in this sense, but in a most correct and dignified manner to define a composition which, while well-knit, symmetrical and logical in structure, is free from the shackles of conventional form.

In this respect his Fantasia may be said to resemble the symphonic poems and concertos of Liszt, as it does also in the intimate relationship which exists between its various melodic subjects, most of which are developed out of a single motive which is thus shown to be the basic idea of the work. In it are to be found proclamations of great pomp and pride, ebullitions of the most unconstrained merriment, tender plaints, dreamy musings and wild outpourings of passion.

No one familiar with the physiognomy and spirit of Polish music will fail to recognize the soul of Poland on every page of the work. This fact will call for discussion after the thematic contents of the work have been marshalled. Before then let it be noted that the Fantasia consists of four movements, which succeed each other without interruption, and, though sharply contrasted in style and feeling, yet have thematic material in common. If it be understood that the greatest conceivable freedom is exercised by the composer in respect of changes of tempo and tonality the general scheme of the work may be laid down as follows:.

In a general way this scheme will be found to preserve symphonic outlines, the second movement filling the place of the Scherzo and the last that of the old Rondo finale. The basic motive has a pompous proclamation in octaves by all the instruments of the orchestra at the opening of the work. It is as follows see Example Developed to its close, the second half being harmonized, the phrase gives way to a brief cadenza for the solo instrument.

Again does the orchestra give it utterance, and again it is answered by the piano-forte. The French horn, English horn, and violins in alternation now tranquilly sing a melody, which is the first exemplification of Mr. Only the beginning and end of the melody need to be quoted. The broad stride of the opening phrase is now moderated to the tranquil movement introduced by the new melody and its severity of outline clothed in harmonies by the piano-forte thus see Example If we except a subsidiary melody of a strongly marked character, whose rhythm eighth, quarter, eighth will be found infusing energy into the last subdivision, we have now seen all the material out of which the composer weaves not only his first movement, full of pomp and circumstance, but also his sweetly contemplative third movement.

The melody of this slow movement is a development of the cadence IIb. It is in the nature of a Dumka , an elegiac song, but at the outset it is already associated with the rhythm of the fundamental phrase, which filled with a new and strange feeling appears in the accompaniment, and also with the Krakowiak rhythm which is destined to dominate the concluding portion of the work. Amidst the boisterous swing of the last movement the material of the earlier portions undergoes further transformations and the peroration of the work, after an introduction again of the quasi-cadenza from the first movement, is built up on an augmentation of the melody of the Scherzo.

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It is in the second and last movements that Mr. Paderewski lifts the characteristic dances of Poland into prominence. In these movements there is none of the stateliness of the Polonaise which belongs to the court, but instead the unbridled merriment of the democratic Oberek a species of Mazurka and Krakowiak or Cracovienne.

These, again, we must call to mind not in the idealized form in which Chopin has taught us to think of the dances of Poland, but as the tonal accompaniments of wild gesticulations and furious leapings and clatterings of boot heels.

If this be done we shall find how truthfully one phase of nationalism is illustrated in the second movement which begins as follows see Example Those who desire to observe wherein the national characteristics of Mr. In both will be found the energetic, propulsive effect which comes from shifting of the dynamic effect either by syncopation or forced change of accent from the first beat to the second in a measure. Paderewski is also persistent in his use of what might be called an abbreviation of the characteristic accompanying rhythm of the Polonaise see Example The rhythmical structure of the cadence IIb is also exceedingly common in Polish music and Mr.

Paderewski has lifted it into prime importance in his work. Melodically the chief characteristics are the occasional omission of the seventh interval of our diatonic scale and the frequent use of augmented intervals, especially seconds and fourths. It is the first of these peculiarities which makes the first theme of the Fantasia sound like old Scotch music. The effect of an augmented second has its most striking exemplification in the passage for the piano-forte which follows the orchestral statement of the melody of the Dumka see Example Paderewski has placed piano-forte and band on an even plane of importance, and the orchestral dress of the Fantasia is peculiarly striking and rich in colors.

Besides the customary apparatus he employs an English horn, tuba, an extra kettle-drum he has three, tuned in C sharp, D sharp and G sharp , triangle, Glockenspiel, tambourine and harp. The introductions of a harp into a work in which the piano-forte is a solo instrument is an innovation. This most gracious nocturne, with its burden of gentle melancholy and sweet resignation, was given to the world shortly before Mr. Paderewski came to the United States for the first time.

It is quite unique among latter-day piano-forte compositions in its directness, clarity and simplicity—qualities which were essential to the publication of its most engaging charm. It rests upon a rhythmical figure consisting of two sixteenth notes and an eighth, which is repeated twice in every measure in the composition save when, as an accompaniment of the second subject which appears in the tenor voice it is modified temporarily into a sixteenth rest, sixteenth note and eighth.

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