Nocturne for Bassoon and Marimba
Connor CheePiece Duration: 5:16
About this Piece
Sheet Music: Click here
Contrast / Tremolo: Underneath the bassoon’s legato melodies, the marimba performs fast tremolos to sustain its sound!
Minor Tonality: "Nocturne" uses the Natural Minor Scale
Form Map (See Notable Passages below)
0:00 - A
1:27 - B
2:09 - C
3:00 - D
3:32 - E
4:09 - A’
Notable Passages
Time Stamp:
1:27
— 2:08
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B Section: The marimba plays a high-range melody, as the bassoon plays a low countermelody
Time Stamp:
2:09
— 2:59
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C Section: Listen as the bassoon melody soars high above the marimba, as the marimba tremolos large chords in its low range!
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3:00
— 3:32
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D Section: The marimba performs without the bassoon, here!
Time Stamp:
3:32
— 4:09
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E Section: Legato melodies fill this section of the music!
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4:09
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A' Section: To end the piece, melodies return from the opening section!