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How to analyze this chord in Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement?
A supplementary answer here, let's consider the voice leading in this harmonic motion:
A C# F#
A C# E F##
G# B# D# G#
Voice leading
There's only one note which really moves between the first two ...
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How to analyze this chord in Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement?
This is an augmented sixth chord. Whereas an A7 chord would be expected to resolve to D, an Aaug6 chord resolves to G# — as can be seen in the score.
Augmented sixth chords arise from the b6 of a ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
Probably no official name for this. But it could be that you're hearing V>IV in key C (G>F). This is a common change in any accompaniment, and trying it in different keys - A>G in key D for ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
I believe the answer to this question is a combination of the accepted answer by @user94416 and the answer given by @Tim. Both answers have merits and in this case are both responsible for the ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
I hear this now and then, but not always. I think that we (often) hear the root movement as well as the actual frequency. The frequency of each note rises but the chordal root moves down from G to F
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How does one resolve the conflict between Renaissance theory of Cadences and the contradictions against it in Bach Chorales?
Admittedly, the consequent downward jump of the cantizans into the fifth in Bach's final cadences bothers me too, because to me this sounds so unsatisfactory that it spoils (IMO) the cadence, and it ...
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How would you analyze this harmony in Mamma by Tchaikovsky
In the first measure, there is a cadence in B minor, and the subsequent progression makes more sense when considered in that key. It becomes
ii7 i6 iv i6 ii7 i64
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How to analyze this chord in Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement?
Look at the following chord, which is G# major. So the F## has some sort of secondary leading note character. This means that chord should be some variation of a D# dom. chord. Given we have the notes ...
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How would you analyze this harmony in Mamma by Tchaikovsky
As @Andy_Bonner mentioned in comments, ignoring the B pedal tones in both measures, bar 2 beat 1 is C# and E and bar 3 beat 2 is the same two notes with an added G. Both of those sound like incomplete ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
You have some good answers already but here is a possible explanation. It is implied by some of the others but not quite stated.
If we assume that the notes are just tuned or close enough for us not ...
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Preparation of Chordal 7ths in Classical Harmony
Bach style SATB: You have to make concordant preparation of any seventh except the dominant seventh which does not have to be prepared. So the actual seventh note of the non-dominant seventh chord you ...
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