Questions tagged [analysis]
For questions about studying the intricacies of a piece of music. Questions should also be tagged with a more specific form of analysis if applicable.
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What type of cadence is this?
What type of cadence is this at the end of Dvorak's 9th symphony? Is it an imperfect authentic cadence (IAC)? It's hard to tell, but it appears as ♮viiø7 - I in E-major.
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Hey guys I'm looking for some advice in note taking to replace sheet music
I can always play from sheet music better than I play by memory for the most part.
I'm learning "kiss the rain" by yiruma which isn't hard at all - very simple but yet it is still pretty hard to ...
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Dvorak Plagiarized Beethoven?
I've just analyzed the beginning and the tempo of the scherzo of Dvorak's 9th symphony. When I did it, I've realized he had "copied" the scherzo of Beethoven's 9th! What is going on here?
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Musical analysis of The Pixies' Where is my mind? [closed]
Was just wondering if anyone could tell me about some of the musical/features and devices in the piece and what effect these create. Thanks :)
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Am I right in that it is a diminished triad without the third?
So I have come across a difficulty in my harmonic analysis having to do with the tritone being by itself. Obviously, this gets across a dissonance that has to resolve but just from the tritone, it isn'...
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Mathematical methods for analysing melodic contour? [closed]
Are there any mathematical methods for identifying melodic shape, identifying motifs and general pattern recognition?
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Should sensible analysis show secondary functions fulfilling the supposed function?
This question started for me with an analysis using IV/IV.
It was analysis in Kostka/Payne for Mozart's K545, mv II, mm. 69-71...
G: I | IV6/IV V6/IV | IV
Instead of...
G: I |C: ...
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Using a constant tone to find the key center
I have a song that I'm trying to figure out the key center. I'll explain the process and you can tell me if I"m on the right track.
I start by analyzing the song using software that finds the chords. ...
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How do I tell which mode this extract uses?
In this exercise, the key signature has two flats but it's marked as C minor. There's a footnote that simply says 'modal key signature'. How do I work out which mode to use in my harmonisation?
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Does this chord function as a 13 chord?
In Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin, there is this passage:
(Debussy: Préludes Livre I, No. 8, bar 24)
The piece is in Gb major.
This first chord is probably a I chord. But since it has that ...
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Incorrectly labeled chord. Is this a dominant seventh?
I am trying to analyse this but am confused by the chord marked Am7. Am7 shouldn't have a D in it and doesn't make much sense in the context. Could it possibly be a D7 with the G being a suspension of ...
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What is the rhythm of this Herbie Hancock song, and why is it so weird?
I've always listened to a lot of jazz and heard some weird rhythms, but only this year did my high school offer music theory - and right now, we're learning about rhythm. All we've done so far is ...
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Is there a term for when a lyric is sung and then an instrument (sound) is played to mimic the lyric?
Is there a term for when a phrase in a song, i.e., "shivers down my spine" as in Bohemian Rhapsody, after that phrase is sung, a tinkling or some kind of sound is made with an instrument, to mimic "...
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Interval analysis, augmented 5th or a 6th?
I am doing interval analysis as I am writing a countersubject(working on the harmony for it right now). But I have a bit of trouble here. I have 3 note choices for any given quarter note. The spot I ...
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Analysing “Dust to Dust”, John Kirkpatrick
I've been trying to analyse the song "Dust to Dust" by John Kirkpatrick to perhaps get some insight into how one writes in Locrian without sounding it sounding ugly. The only thing I've noticed is ...
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What's the correct analysis of this harmonic sequence at the end of the first movement of Dvorak's Fourth Symphony?
I've been puzzling over the best way to analyse the chords that occur at the end of the First Movement of Dvorak's Symphony No. 4 in D minor Op. 13. The passage is definitely part of a harmonic ...
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How could the medieval chants be classified before any notation was available?
We all have in mind the image of a medieval mode as a scale with a pattern of tones and semitones with a finalis, a specific range, etc.
However, it seems that medieval chants were classified ...
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Functional analysis of chorale 'Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe' BWV 244/46
I did some analysis of the chorale 'Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe' (from Matthew Passion BWV 244 no.46), see below. But how would I analyse the first chord in measure 2? Obviously, it's an E ...
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Analyzing Ryuichi Sakamoto “Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurence”
The original song is not in C Maj key
but the sheet I Have is in C Maj so let just see as the key is in C maj
(The [B] part starts 1:50)
How does the Gm (Vm) come ...
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Harmonic analysis of arpeggios in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
I've always liked the arpeggio section in dance of the sugar plum fairy, it sounds so sweet and mysterious. I was trying to figure out the idea behind them. Here's the section in Synthesia.
From ...
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Why is the final section of Liszt's La Campanella working so well?
The ending section of Liszt's La Campanella is the most beautiful I've heard so far.
I'm referring to the change in melody, from this point all the way to the end:
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Harmonic Analysis of Chopin's etude op.10 no 5
In the circled part, what is the harmony?
Is the E-flat a non-chord tone or is this just some weird chord? (I've only learnt basic harmony.)
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Why do we care about the interval between a pair of notes and not the product of a pair of notes?
As a computer scientist, I think of each element of musical analysis as a computation we have chosen to do on the music for some reason. I'm not saying I understand how humans decide what the meter ...
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How does one identify leitmotifs in Wagner's Ring cycle?
How does one go about identifying leitmotifs in Wagner's Ring cycle? My usual strategy is:
I just know a bunch of them from repeated listening.
I open one of the online repositories such as this one ...
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What makes a piece sound like Beethoven?
I can't seem to find non-harmonic analyses of Beethoven's sonatas. And I'm not a classical music analyzer. That makes it hard to write a sonata in the style of Beethoven when I don't know what ...
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Does the harmony change in this part?
In the circled part, does the harmony change to ii or is the D an échappé (escape note) to the dominant?
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What's the theory behind Chim Chim Cher-ee?
Chim Chim Cher-ee has a fantastic chord structure:
i, IIIaug, III, IV, iv, i, II7, V
Most of those transitions make sense to me. However, there are three transitions that I don't quite understand:
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What is the musical form of Saint-Saens Danse Macabre?
My first ("blind") guess was that it is in rondo form with two themes, but when I performed analysis, it somehow doesn't fit any form that I can think of.
This is what I figured out:
intro a b a' a ...
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Does Bill Conti's Thomas Crown Affair theme use a specific mode?
So I was watching The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) (The remake, not the original) and I was struck with the colors and general feel of the main theme, composed by Bill Conti. I immediately wanted to ...
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Roman Numeral Analysis of Tension-Heavy Jazz
So far, I have tried doing Roman numeral analysis mainly on Classical- and Romantic- era music. However, I just took a look at some Miles Davis, and didn't know what to do - there were so many chords ...
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What does R=2N mean?
I'm just wondering what the R=2N means. I guess it's something like "real bar = 2notated bars," but does anyone know?
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What are these non-chord tones in the Jackson Five's “Want you Back”?
for example could u play a neighbour tone twice or got from a chord tone to an nct then to another nct. I was looking at jackson 5's want you back and this appeared to be the case
this is written in ...
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F Dm Am C (Lydian?) Progression
I've been recently wrapping my head around the analysis of the following progression: F Dm Am C. Would you agree it's got an undeniable lydian vibe? I know an explicit lydian progression should ...
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Final chord of Duruflé Requiem
I recently sang, and separately listened to a performance of Duruflé's requiem. While listening, I was struck by the last chord of the in Paradisum, which adds an unexpected note half way through (and ...
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Chord Succession vs. Chord Progression in Douglass Green's “Form in Tonal Music”
Douglass Green defines "chord succession" as a movement of chords that starts in a certain area and reaches the same area (I believe "area" means the classification as tonic, mediant, submediant, etc ....
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Music programming question for feature extraction and visualization [closed]
I am relatively new in music programming and I am looking for suggestions on what tools/programming languages to use regarding the following scenarios about feature extraction and visualization:
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Where is the fragmentation?
I don't really see, where these fragments are meant to be taken from. The only thing that seems fragmented to me is the idea of sequencing pitches downwards. But doesn't fragmentation refer to Rythm?
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What is Chris Potter playing here?
NB: This is all in Tenor Sax key (Bb), not Concert
I've been mulling over the following excerpt of a Chris Potter solo on the tune "Just One Of Those Things," I find it probably the most harmonically ...
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Roman numeral anaysis help
Hello,
I'm trying to do a roman numeral analysis of this piece, but i could not figure out the first two bars. Especially the third beat of the second bar.
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Origin of Roman Numeral Analysis
Out of curiosity, I was searching for the origin of Roman Numeral analysis and the only online source I could find was this passage in Wikipedia:
Gottfried Weber's Versuch einer geordneten Theorie ...
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Is this the wrong way of analysis?
This is a piece from the 16th century by Thomas Tallis called "If ye love me".
I started by coloring the sentences in the different voices to make it more visible to me. I think this was a good way, ...
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Why is this segment of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” in B minor and not D major?
This is taken from the "E.T. The extra-terrestrial" score:
There is an analysis of here:
and this screenshot is from 00:40
I do not understand the annotation:
The ...
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What's going on in measures 11 - 16 of Beethoven's Sonata Appasionata?
I'm studying the Neapolitan Chord and the textbook includes the following excerpt to analyze. Up until measure 10 I understand what's happening, but I have no clue how to interpret measure 11 and ...
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Help with a Minecraft Piece Analysis?
So I did an anlysis for a Minecraft Piece for a video I'm working on. I was wondering if there were any glaring errors?
I called the chords that had arpeggiated the 9th Maj9 chords, but for some that ...
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Chord Progression “Time” - Hans Zimmer
I was taking a look at the soundtrack for the Inception movie:"Time" by Hans Zimmer.
Does anyone understand what kind of a weird progression he uses?
I tried everything from cadential to sequential ...
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Analysis of the chord progression in Mozart's “Rondo in D” K485, mm. 9-16
Could some proofread this? I don't feel like it's correct. I'm studying with a book and this is at the beginning of a chapter about Sentences.
The main confusion point is the progression. Does the ...
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What does this arrow mean in the chord annotations?
What does the arrow (which I've highlighted) mean?
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Cadence in Haydn's String Quartet in G, Op. 54, No 1, i, 1-13
I'm studying with a book called "Analyzing Classical Form" and it says that the cadence in this piece starts it's cadence on the 2nd half of m 10 but that's a III(5) and I'm so confused.
Download the ...
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Taxonomy of themes in classical music
I am reading Dr. B.-G. Cohrs's note [C] on the (fascinating) history of the Symphonisches Präludium, now commonly attributed to Anton Bruckner. I was a little mystified by the following remark:
The ...
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Key analysis of piece with roots in A and later on G
So I have a piece written in C, with very few accidentals. However the bass resides mainly on A. Am I correct in assuming that most probably it means the piece is actually in A minor?
Later on I use ...
