Repetition of Soft Notes
The repetition of soft notes, and the Bebung:
On a grand piano which is properly adjusted, you can repeat the notes softly without allowing the key to rise more than 1/16th of an inch or so.
This you are enabled to do, because the repetition lever of your Grand enables the hopper again to slip under the "button" of the hammer. Also, when you do this, the note can be repeated perfectly legato; because when you allow the key to rise so little, the damper does not reach the strings. You can play the repeated chords of the opening of the "Waldstein" Sonata perfectly legato and pp, which is quite a different effect from that produced when you allow the keys fully to rise.
On a grand piano which is properly adjusted, you can repeat the notes softly without allowing the key to rise more than 1/16th of an inch or so.
This you are enabled to do, because the repetition lever of your Grand enables the hopper again to slip under the "button" of the hammer. Also, when you do this, the note can be repeated perfectly legato; because when you allow the key to rise so little, the damper does not reach the strings. You can play the repeated chords of the opening of the "Waldstein" Sonata perfectly legato and pp, which is quite a different effect from that produced when you allow the keys fully to rise.
Other Examples Repeated Notes
As other examples:- take the accompanying chords of the slow movement of Schumann's Sonata in G minor.
- also the softest "reverberated" chords (the second of each couplet) in the opening of Chopin's G minor Ballade.
The reverberated effect here Bebung[1] is the same as required at various points in the slow movement of Beethoven's Op. 110.
Bars 148-End: Coda. The Coda simply consists of a few chords in the tonic key (F minor), ending on major tonic chord.
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Bebung: a tremolo effect that is similar in sound to a violin vibrato and is produced on the clavichord by sustaining a varying pressure on the key after striking a note.