This vividly programmatic piece, unlike the composer's previous tombeaux, bears a subtitle linking it specifically to Chopin and his sojourn at Valldemosso on the island of Majorca (1838–39). The unusual style of this piece is intended to evoke the kind of music Chopin might have composed had he adopted a specifically Spanish idiom. Its A-B-A' form describes the progression from a sunny seaside scene, through a landscape of dark pines and thistles, to the nocturnal quiet of the Royal Carthusian Monastery (G-flat major) where the composer resided with his lover, novelist George Sand.