“verborgne.” The left hand chords and right hand after-beat chords are retained. The piano, in the low and middle range, continues this pattern after the line is repeated, the top notes of the chords sliding upward by half-steps in a quiet, diminishing motion back to the home minor ...
It rises in the opposite rhythm of the right-hand chords. Already on “ist,” the harmony moves to an evocative “diminished seventh.” The left hand simply plays long bass notes, leaping down measure by measure. Before the second line, on “Nacht,” the pure major harmony is restored. ...
in die Nacht der Nächte! English Translation 0:00 [m. 1]--Part 1. Introduction. A succession of slow, steady, low, and dark-hued octaves and chords is punctuated twice by a funeral march-like idea with a prominent dotted rhythm. It is marked sotto voce. 0:19 [m. 6]-- Line ...
Inner notes of these chords double the vocal line. The voice adds a new upward leap at the end of line 3. Line 4 appears to match line 2, but with the continuing bell-like chords in the right hand. At the end, however, it reaches even higher and moves to the “dominant” E ...