colorature

Updated: June 6, 2025

By-and-by the nimble motions of the colorature become slower, and finally glide into the original form of the melody, which, however, already after the third bar comes to a stand- still, is resumed for a short phrase, then expires, after a long- drawn chord of the dominant seventh, on the chord of the tonic, and all is rest and silence.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2