3. Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Opus 47The Third Ballade is constructed on the same general ines as the first but with a greater economy of material.A fragment of a rising scale and a rocking figure of two notes, heard in the first two bars-these form the substance of the music whose prevailing mood is light and chevalieresque. The two themes proceed in a graceful flow of sound until they are brought together and set off against each other in the centre of the Ballade.There is a dramatic shift C sharp minor and the tension is built up in a long sequence which raises the level of the music by semitones, paving the way for the triumphant restatement in glowing colours of the theme with which the Ballade opens.