Intermezzo in B-Flat Minor (Op. 117 No. 2)

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B Section Transition

Measures 38 – 51

This section can be considered either a short development section, or a transition to the return of the A section. The continuous 32nd notes resume, and the harmony becomes extremely chromatic, before settling onto the dominant of the home key of B-flat minor. Study and play this harmonic reduction to ingrain the chords and hand positions in your memory. This section is also motivically dense and rhythmically agitated, as can be seen in this reduction to the outer voices: Practise this section from the full score as written before continuing....