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Lesson 2: Tonic and Dominant
Last week we covered open and closed cadences, using in part, the Theme from Mozart K331 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9KWQ8hAYk. This week we will only need the first 22 seconds. For reference, the music notation looks like this: Don’t worry if note reading doesn’t come easily to you. There are plenty of ways to learn to read music…
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Lesson 1: Cadence and Form
The most common type of musical analysis is arguably formal analysis. Formal analysis answers the question: How are the large parts of this music related to one another? Form analysis is one of the first types of analysis non-specialist music-lovers grasp; think of any pre-concert talk, program notes, or the like. These often consist of…
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Lesson 0: What is analysis?
This blog is about Functional Analysis in music. For people already familiar with music analysis, I have an explanation of what I believe FA is and does https://functionalanalysis.wordpress.com/what-is-functional-analysis/ But, I’m also expanding to start posting about how to learn FA from the ground up, whether you are a musician, not, or somewhere in between, so…