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Samir Obaido
28. February 2019
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bar 20 to reach a resolution, and it finds it with an E Major chord that brings stability and
certainty to an otherwise very harmonically blurry piece.
The prelude, supposedly in A minor, starts on the minor dominant of the home key,
meaning an E minor. If we were to really search for a tonal center in this piece, we wouldn’t
find it in its conventional form until the end of the piece, which tonicizes the A minor through
establishing the E major triad Dominant in bar 21, which at first seems like a picardy 3rd
ending, but then this chord is given a 7th to bring us back to the implied reality that the piece
had carried along most of its content, resolving on a stable, profound A minor chord.
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