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Re: Group 3 @karin Mostly, this looks quite good! I agree with your hesitation in m. 1 about labeling a new chord halfway through the measure. I don't think that's necessary except at points where a new note…
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Re: Group 3 @Midori I'm not sure I could distill "how to make V-IV work" in a comment post--I actually took a whole graduate seminar (1 semester long) on Brahms' harmony at IU!…
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Re: Group 3 @Midori I'll jump in since I'm finally done with an intense violin studio rehearsal/recital commitment (which kept me away from here longer than I would have liked).…
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Re: Group 4 @Massimo maj Gottfried Weber is popularly credited with spreading the Roman Numeral system, although others were doing it too (I want to say Abbe Vogler,…
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Re: Group 4 @Tina Ellul Glad to know you are finding this useful! I was recently reminded of how useful fluency in chord structures and syntax can be--I'm accompanying a long violin studio recital at CIM…
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Re: Group 4 @Alice Lin Hi Alice! Just thought I'd take a look at this real quick. Measures 3-6 are very interesting, as you noted--with F in the bass persisting over what looks like these vii chords and a…
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Re: Group 1 @Lc The highlighted chord is just derived from ascending melodic minor--in F minor that would use D and E naturals. He may have wanted to avoid a melodic tritone between Db and G because he's…
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Re: Group 2 @Kerstin a couple quick observations: Measure 339, I'd call that ii7 (F#m with the E). I agree that 341 is just a decoration of the overriding dominant so I wouldn't put a new RN there.…
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Re: Group 2 @Kerstin Sure! I will be out on a church gig this morning and then teaching in the afternoon, so it may be late at night (or tomorrow morning for you) before I can really take a look--just wanted you…
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Re: Group 2 @Ben Laude @Kerstin Looking at bar 12 quickly, I would say the downbeat C major is a pivot chord of sorts--it functions in 2 different keys (E minor and B minor) and was briefly tonicized by the…
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Re: Group 1 @Ben Laude @Maggie Hello! Ben's point that "not every V-I is a cadence" is so important and something it took me a while to get around as a student. I do think that there "should" have been a…
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