From Which Musical Aspect is Czerny Piano Concerto No.1 Similar to Chopin Piano Concerto No.1?

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a lot of similarities between them: complex ornamentation and large amount of running phrases.

To begin with, they both contains very complex ornamentation, In music, ornaments are not often essential to the melody of a piece but are used to "show off" and provide a different layer of musical complexity,(Farrant, 2020) which contains countermelody, triplet, scales, chords and polyphony melody. In their pieces, the melodies are normally simple, chromaticism scales melody and second interval climbing appear frequently; however, by adding different ornamentation, the arrangement becomes different. In Czerny's Piano Concerto No.1 movement III (Figure.1a)

The melody in fig.1a is a very basic repeated perfect fifth interval melodic line D-A-D-A; however, Czerny made a more complex triplet ornamentation- triplet dots rhythm. Another example for movement III as shown in Fig.1b

From the second measure in Fig.1b to the fifth measure, the melody is basically a downward sale from E to ...

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