A desire for increased vitality and florid figuration led to embellished organ accompaniment.
True, the Mozart model still shines through the fabric, but we seek it less in the art of figurationthan in the form and other things which are only indirectly associated with the obbligato style.
After the sixteenth bar the treatment becomes more free, while the figurationis much the same.
The next is more simply treated, and in the third variation Paganini's theme forms the bass upon which the figuration of the initial motive is superposed.
The writing becomes very elaborate, and the rhythmic figuration complex, passages with four and five-stroke notes occurring.
Adagio, in G minor, in which differentfiguration was absolutely necessary for the keyboard instrument.
Here is the very apotheosis of the ornament; the figurationsets off the idea in dazzling relief.
The figuration is tropical, and when the major is reached and those glancing thirty-seconds so coyly assail us we realize the seductive charm of Chopin.
The figurationin three of the editions is the same, Mikuli separating the voices distinctly.
To a Thalberg-ian euphony he has added a technical figuration not unlike Chopin's, and a spirit quite Teutonic in its sentimentality.
Lenz got the music, but it did not please him--it seemed to him a long movement in the nocturne style, a Babel of figuration on a lightly laid foundation.
In B major, it is sufficiently various in figuration and rhythmical life to single it from its fellows.
After sixteen bars of a crudely harmonized tutti comes the Polonaise in the widely remote key of E flat; it is brilliant, every note telling, the figuration rich and novel, the movement spirited and flowing.
This B minor Scherzo has the acid note of sorrow and revolt, yet the complex figuration never wavers.
I stared earnestly at the rocky slopes on either hand, but could not have sworn their figuration was changed.
The figuration of the main hatch showed a small square, and there was a companion or hatch-cover abaft the mainmast.
The figuration in the Valse, and again in the Finale, also affords a faint premonition of the marvels that enthral us in the latter work.
This is the case even in what is called the Sumerian system itself, and when its signs and processes were borrowed by other nations, the tendency to abandon figuration was of course still more marked.
The absolute originality of Chopin's personality, and that of its expression through novel harmony, chromaticism, figuration justifies the assertion.
The versatility of the man, his genius as composer and pianist, the novelty of his figuration and form dazzled his contemporaries or else blinded them to his true import.
The exactness and curiosity of the figuration of these branches, was in every particular so transcendent, that I judge it almost impossible for humane art to imitate.
It really is very sad," Evelyn said, her eyes twinkling with the humour of the idea, "that anyone should think that such figuration could replace sculpture.