They could be bigger leaps, but you often see >them in this fashion. The counterpoint is quite interesting in the first bar, regarding the 4 quavers. Morike Lieder No 24: In der Fruhe (Early Morning) (1888) Bar 21, is a continuation of the half cadence in D. We have still not seen the confirming cadence in the key of D necessary to confirm an actual key change. Here's a good audio example: https://youtu.be/pzbr6ZGk4zs?t=1m43s Reply carnegiehall I'm a guitar and piano teacher with many years of experience under my belt. 11, Op. https://songbirdmusicacademy.com/an-in-depth-harmonic-analysis-of-minuet-in-g-bwv-anh-114/. 30, Op. There are only a few surviving works by Petzold left, and this one is one of few by him. But I am still> convinced that there is a "design pattern" between the two and I just> need> to be able to get my hands on it explicitly. >>Bach and Friends did a LOT with melodic fragments changing>and mutating through the course of a piece, but still being>recognizable. )>>and the A3 accented PT (or app. (phrase end, that is), >>> 25* 26 27 28> G C G D7 G D> ___ ____ / / / ____> I6 Iv I V764 I V. m. 27: Here again is that problematic V6/4 or viio6 or V4/3 in the same place. LH parts move in logical patterns one note at a time.Double note inthe bass enter as a third voice.That's melodic movement - Maybe notLennon/McCartney or Mozart type melodic,but melodic nonetheless. Sheet Music: Wolf-In der Fruhe; Publisher: C.F. I could, others could - but not over the internet. Bach) butit's good food for thought. >>>>> 13 14 15 16>>>> Am D G Em D7 G>> / / / / / / ____ _____>> ii ii V6 I I vi V7 I>>Ahh, what about that V in bar 13 - now it makes more sense from above >doesn't it? I've always thought of much of this as "gems" and nice models. Hey, I'm a realist - I've analyzed two minuets and one prelude here -What the hell do I know anyway ;-). Mesure 25 is just a momentary hint at G major - or could be the V of C minor - I'd have to look at it again but one measure of the opposite mode does not disrupt the key too much usually. Copyright: Public Domain Based on what you've said here and playing it as written, I'd sayyeah, definitely. We cadence to Bb at meas.>16.>Measures 17 -- 20 would seem to be in F and we are drifting back to>Bb in measure 22 and cadence to Bb in measure 24; then we slip into>G melodic minor ascending for the remainder of the piece (incidentally,>I still don;t know what to make of the G major in measure 25! After the respite of the cadence in bar 24, the introduction of the prominent C natural on the 3rd beat of the bar is a signal that we may be returning back to G major. We cadence to Bb at meas.> 16.> Measures 17 -- 20 would seem to be in F and we are drifting back to> Bb in measure 22 and cadence to Bb in measure 24; then we slip into> G melodic minor ascending for the remainder of the piece (incidentally,> I still don;t know what to make of the G major in measure 25! Minor key pieces tend to modulate to the Relative Major probably foremost, and then their MINOR dominant. Now well fast-forward to the year 1965. 11, No. Bach plays with the two-voice texture in an interesting way, omitting the thirds from some chords which often serve as important structural features (i.e. Harmonic Analysis Part A. So the Antecedent phrase ends on scale degree 2 in the melody, on a half cadence, the consequent phrase ends on scale degree 1 on an authentic cadence. This was supposed to go HERE:>> (steve: notice I didn't get caught, >Yes, but it's neither :-D - you've twice now invented em chords when. But if you try to play those traids under the melody> - it sounds a little *off* ( though I could probably get used to it> if I played it enough times). >> the first IN is b-c over a C chord, which i can sorta see 'out of> context', the next is D# to E, which I can also see 'out of context'.> but in context, it just looks like a melodic run. The G bass note on the 2nd weak beat of the bar represents a passing exchange with the upper voice (Bass: E to G, Melody: G to E) but there is no change in the harmony of the chord in the bar. α α12. Bar 7 is a quick stop on the scale degree descending down to the and then scale degree, with the melody exchanging with the bass (Bass: B to G, Melody: G to B). The modulation from C major to G major in Example 36-5 is typical: the vast majority of major-key continuous binaries modulate to the dominant. Again, we're moving past that in the Baroque, and the >Direct interval of 3 to 8 (it's direct if they move in similar motion) has >become the cadential favorite now (then). Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Minuet in G, from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV Anh. A harpsichord piece by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Topics: Binary form The repetition bars helps us find out the end of each section. Music is, to a large extent, the organization of sounds and silence. Stand corrected>>I think a very interesting approach to an analysis would be to concentrate >on these "stragglers" - They're like those people who come walking through >the shot in a Western movie - passersby - there's an actual term for them. Topics: Binary form Bass degrees are encircled and placed below the bass note. Thanks for your devotion and hard work on this blog. The third movement is the classic minuet and trio. Titles: * Rondo in C Major from Sonatina (W.A. bar 23 contains the 6th aloys. They are mere pieces for therelative beginner who is not quite ready to go on to the Inventionsand Sinfonias, WTC 1 &2 ,or Goldberg Variations. Even though the tempo or rhythm would sometimes dip down, it would only be for a second and then become the more up beet rhythm like the rest of the song. Ltd. is compensated for referring traffic and business to this company. One of the most common is to strike>>the Tonic pitch (usually in soprano) during the last V chord and hold it>>into, or repeat that note on the I chord.>> This I can grasp a bit easier, although I'd prefer a wider range of> examples to draw from than Piston offers.I doubt I could Identify them> in any given piece based solely on the info he provided. Right or wrong, that's how I hear it now - I tried to use the bestword I could find ('aurally') to describe my reaction to the sound.Sorry, I guess we just disagree on this point. Topics: Binary form The history of this piano is very checkered. II 116 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (J. S. Bach) * Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (G. F. Handel) * Mussette, Gavotte II or the Musette Now we begin the 2nd half of the piece, and it begins with a modulating prinner (la sol fa mi/) that terminates on the scale degree in the key of D major, which 19th-century theorists would call the dominant key. >
only on a metrically weak position, but with the ET being shorter in value >(like the 16th of a dotted 8th-16th pair). These 2 pieces aren't worthy of suchinvolved analysis.We've said enough during the course of this threadto understand it - why dig any deeper? Remember though, this is counterpoint. recommends. Public Domain, Suite in E major, HWV 430, IV. Recent scholarship reveals it to be by the rather obscure composer Christian Pezold. Or upper neighbour. 6 (1838-1839), Sheet Music: Chopin-Prelude No 6; Publisher Smtliche Pianoforte-Werke, 1838-1839 Dissonances are labeled in red and consonances in blue. Some intervals are >"just intervals" (here though we can name them). Its not within the scope of this article to discuss the definition of a minuet but it was a type of courtly dance typically in 3/4 time that saw widespread use in the 17th and 18th century before dramatically falling out of use in the 19th century. II 116 from . β ?13. I think you are over-anylizing these two pieces, especially the Asections.Don't get too hung up on these minuets - I'll post some moreanalysis of other pices in this book(maybe) and later you can come back to these if you wish after you've seenthe bigger picture. II 116 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (J. S. Bach) * Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (G. F. Handel) * Mussette, Gavotte II or the Musette from English G D Em A___ ____ ____ _____I V6 G:vi D ii V, 21 22 23 24A Em* A D D A D D D7/C___ / / / / / / / / / V ii ii V6 I I6 V I I D:V7 of IV G:V7 of I. Moving onto bar 9, we return to the same theme used in bar 1 but this time the bass begins on the scale degree. >Styles change (like in Bach's day many more things were written in C clefs >than today). probably> that> was discussed in this thread but I don't have the conclusion in my> memory> and am too tired to dig through the thread again tonight). Bach, Johann Sebastian: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. This analysis will instead focus on partimento, figured bass, counterpoint, and music schema theory. The tritone does hint at the dominant chord, but as later, this is a common chordal dissonance. Then the melody creates a sense of progression and growth as it moves gradually through a wide pitch range. This I can grasp a bit easier, although I'd prefer a wider range ofexamples to draw from than Piston offers.I doubt I could Identify themin any given piece based solely on the info he provided. The piece then returns to the familiar first minuet. I mention this because I can't see howto determine if that C4 is an upper neighbor or a suspension,forinstance . In bar 20, there is an A major chord. Peters, n.d. (1888) This is a fascinating and fun little piece of music history that spans almost 300 years. I think of the first 4 as setting up the key and the mood, and rather static, and the last four more progressive and obviously going somewhere (the V for the first HC, and the I for the final cadence). first time thru, He gives wholechunks of sound - one measure each (more open to interpretation IMO);9-16 there's more definition given via the increased bass motion ,soit's a little easier to see. Polyrhythm is used, which is when two or more rhythms with different pulses are heard together eg where one is playing in triple time and another is playing in quadruple time, three against four. γ γ15. θ θ -inverse27. The metre throughout the piece changes, however the main one is 4/4. Moreto follow. 9 10 11 12G * G C * G, / / / ______ / / / _____, * = same as previous. For one, the oldest mention of this piece is in 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (German: Notenbchlein fr Anna Magdalena Bach). Minuet in G Major is one of the many famous compositions of Johannes Sebastian Bach. I'm a graduate of Berklee College of Music (summa cum laude) and am the host of the Nikhil Hogan Show, a music interview podcast. I'd claim this whole thing is a prolongation of D7, finallyreaching resolution at G in measure 16. That's the same pattern as m.22! In the background of the piece is the sound of a faint fiddle. 124 (1730), Sheet Music: Bach-March in G; Publisher: TobisNotenarchiv, ed. Anna M's notebook is just preliminary work to be gotten out of the waybefore attempting the really good stuff IMO. No, you're mixing two things. Minuet in G major 4. strings sound hesitant, creating a delicate and sensitive sound. Yesterday I suffered a freak accident that will hamper blogging for a while. (phrase end, that is)>>Misunderstanding. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project, Performer pages: Stefano Ligoratti (harpsichord) At the time when this dance was the most fashionable, it was slow, ceremonious and graceful. (app and sus areexplained pretty good, though). Duet for Flute and Bassoon; 5. So the Antecedent phrase ends on scale degree 2 in the >melody, on a half cadence, the consequent phrase ends on scale degree 1 on >an authentic cadence.>>I picked up ^2 here because it's usually 2 with a caret on top in texts, but >it's hard to do in non-typingese like I type. 5 in G Major, BWV 816; Minuet from French Suite No. There arecommon patterns, except they mutate. Sheet Music: Schumann-Ich Grolle Nicht; Breitkopf & Hrtel, 1879-1912 Refers to the metronome setting. >Having a good notation for that would be the>key to understanding it. The structure of this piece can be labeled as ABA (last A varied). There's usually some ancestral evolution to trace. On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:59:36 GMT, Alias <. Looking for landmarks: In the G major one, I only see a key change to Dmajor(starting I think at bar 20 and changing back to G maj at 25 ). However, upon hearing the minor second, the perception of the recap is now entirely different. 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