Chopin Returns To The A Section Again

In a shocking development (is it development?) the great Polish composer Frederic Chopin returned to the A section. Again.

“For a while I thought the exciting stormy middle part would go on for a bit longer,” said John Man, who was listening. “But then it sort of stopped and, what ho! We were in the A section. Again.”

Though perhaps not surprising given Chopin’s frequent use of charming small-scale salon forms, the return to the A section in this case was quite abrupt and shocking, like a chord with lots of double sharps in, or even flats.

“Wait,” asked a local merchant, “was that just one bar of awkward modulation leading us back to the A section? I was expecting at least two! I love a droopy chromatic twist as much as the next person, but that is poor form. Literally.”

Famous Chopin scholar Fred the Dread says it is inappropriate to criticise Chopin’s slightly boxy use of material, given how much of a genius he was in every other way. “I mean, we all know that we are listening to an artificial construct,” he said. ” You don’t get upset when you see the knitting in a thing that’s obviously been knitted, do you? How else are you supposed to knit?”

We spoke to the Grim Reaper himself, who was quite defensive of Chopin and also small-scale salon forms generally. “We all come from the A section,” he explained, “and it is to the A section we must, no matter how abruptly, return.”