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The blog is on holiday until Wednesday, December 27, 2017. All the best from my local beach. Music hints if you click on …
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Music lineage<\/h2>\n

It is from an album – Chopin: Selected Works<\/em> – played by Lithuanian pianist Aldona Dvarionait\u00e9.<\/p>\n

This track is my favourite – Prelude in E Minor Opus 28 No 4<\/a> – one of 24 preludes that Chopin wrote.<\/p>\n

In his will, Chopin instructed that this particular prelude should be played at his funeral.<\/p>\n

It is the easiest piece by Chopin for piano and has a very distinctive descending left-hand pattern, which has become common in modern Jazz standards. Chopin was way ahead of his time.<\/p>\n

I spent some of yesterday transcriping the original piano work into guitar, which required combining both the left-hand (chords) and right-hand (melody) sections into an arrangement that could be played by the left-hand only on guitar. That was fun.<\/p>\n

The jazz standard played by Wes Montgomery that I provided yesterday – In Sensitive<\/a> – was inspired melodically by Chopin’s prelude. Hence the reference to lineage.<\/p>\n