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GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (1981

GOLDBERG VARIATIONEN

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Wikipedia - Goldberg Variations

主要単語・例文

• name after : ～にちなんで名前をつける、 Give someone or something the name of another person or place

  The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.

• insomnia : 不眠症、Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time.

  At such times, Goldberg, who lived in his house, had to spend the night in an antechamber, so as to play for him during his insomnia.

• chord progession : コード進行

  After a statement of the aria at the beginning of the piece, there are thirty variations. The variations do not follow the melody of the aria, but rather use its bass line and chord progression.

• time : 拍子
  例文）3/4 time - 3/4拍子

  The aria is a sarabande in 3/4 time, and features a heavily ornamented melody:

• ornament : 装飾音
  unadorned : 飾りのない、簡素な

  The French style of ornamentation suggests that the ornaments are supposed to be parts of the melody; however, some performers (for example Wilhelm Kempff on piano) omit some or all ornaments and present the aria unadorned.

• wistful : 悲しげな、Expressing sadness or yearning
  subdued : 抑えられた、reduced in fullness of tone, as a color or sound; muted.

  Its melody is made to stand out by what has gone on in the last five variations, and it is likely to appear wistful or nostalgic or subdued or resigned or sad, heard on its repeat as something coming to an end, the same notes but now final.