{"id":91,"date":"2023-12-27T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2023-12-27T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:22:08","slug":"fantasy-on-chopins-ballade-no-4-a-shortened-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy on Chopin&#8217;s Ballade No. 4 (a shortened version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A favorite of Chopin&#8217;s Ballades that I once worked on, but it has some very difficult sections for the amateur pianist. I came back to this piece and created a shortened version of it that required one new transition section and a new ending. It was great fun to work on and play as I retained my favorite sections of the piece in this arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fantasy on Chopin&#039;s Ballade No. 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhJWOA6pCIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The details of this arrangement are as follows:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I play the original score to the cadenza at measure 76. This I replaced with a new cadenza that transitions to minor:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=93\" class=\"sdm_download green\" title=\"Chopin Ballade 4 Cadenza\" >Download Cadenza<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_count\"><span class=\"sdm_count_number\">200<\/span><span class=\"sdm_count_string\"> Downloads<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I continue with measure 152. I play through measure 167 ending on the last A natural. Then I proceed to a new ending in a new key:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=96\" class=\"sdm_download green\" title=\"Chopin Ballade 4 New Ending\" >New Ending<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_count\"><span class=\"sdm_count_number\">185<\/span><span class=\"sdm_count_string\"> Downloads<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite of Chopin&#8217;s Ballades that I once worked on, but it has some very difficult sections for the amateur pianist. I came back to this piece and created a shortened version of it that required one new transition section and a new ending. It was great fun to work on and play as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}