I don't have a lot of time this week so once again I'll talk to myself about Chopin's mazurakas. This week I'm up to Opus 41. This will take my only halfway through my mazurkas book :(

Quatre Mazurkas

For à Mr. E. Witwicki.

Op. 41, No. 1 in C♯ minor

Some interesting harmonies to start this one out. Some kind of Phyrgian thing with the C#m → D chord progression.

The main theme transitions to a major theme with a bit of a deceptive cadence.

The C (or maybe D, I lost count) section has some call-and-response back-and-forth between the left- and right-hands as it modulates to A major.

That then transitions back to the main theme, except in a major key, and now that D chord makes more sense in the F♯m harmonic scale.

Some dotted-eighth/sixteenth patterns follow, which is very mazurka-ish. I guess.

And finally the main theme is revisited loudly in octaves, and it ends in a funeral march waltz. Of sorts.

Op. 41, No. 2 in E minor

Op. 41, No. 3 in B major

Op. 41, No. 4 in A♭ major