I really enjoy playing Mompou's Prelude 6 (pour main gauche). The analysis is implicit in the learning of the piece. It is a prelude, which implies unitary material, rather than contrasting sections. The entire piece is a series of transformations of the first phrase. Every individual section ends with a rising arpeggio, with pedal, usually with a ritardando. In most cases, the same material will be repeated in transposition, with the arpeggio concluding that section.
The initial motif is atonal, but the resolutions in the arpeggios tend to end up as major chords. There is a resolution in Eb major at the top of the second page, and then a series of C minor (a variations at the end of that page), then the ending is in Eb major again. There is not time signature, and the basic unit is the eighth note. It takes five minutes to play in the proper tempo. The moods shift without any major shifts in the thematic material itself.
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