Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language. - Walter Raymond Spalding

Another favorite means of arresting the attention was by modulation; not used in a constructive in different keys, but to furnish the ear with a purely sensuous delight, corresponding to that which the eye derives from the kaleidoscopic colors of a sunset.

In general, Chopin's style is homophonic—wondrous lyric melodies which seem to float on waves of richly colored sound. But there is also much subtly used polyphony, i. e., delightful phrases in inner voices and imitative effects between the different parts.

[T]he chief melody, often in the upper voice, seems to float on underlying waves of sound.