It is still the scale degree of the key of D major. I read the notes as G down to E, now that I've> actually LOOKED, I see it's G up to B. Now well fast-forward to the year 1965. Use this tutorial with our tab to learn the song without having to read notes in . δ α18. Let me try to re-state this another way.Quite frankly, these twopieces are hardly the pinnical of Baroque period art, and as such donot deserve such intense scrutinty. In music written between, roughly, 1600 and 1900, the so-called "common practice" period when most music was written using functional tonal harmony, you start with a harmonic analysis. These aren't fugues,just simple melodies.There are no 'subjects'. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. β ?5. Just adding> more animation to the part (kind of like the bassist is getting bored> and want's to stretch a bit), Just adding forward motion - but there are NCTs there the C4 is UN (or App.) The Urtext just inserts a quarter rest>> before it in parenthesis ( and I *still* miss it. How are you using the word 'accented'? includes notes on "the composer, the music of [this] edition" and on "performance". Once you play a zillion of >them they start to run together.>>I'll just point out that the two pieces also>> demonstrate in a basic introductory way, the differences in emotional>> quality between major and minor .>>Check out "Doctrine of Affections" on Google. >> Probably a misunderstanding on my part, but curious that it DOES show> up somewhat near the end like Fux said. η η22. In bar 20, there is an A major chord. 1, Minuet III from Suite in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 822 (J. S. Bach) * Minuet No. They analyzed a few chords, and left a few for >the student. Bach - WTC Fugue 2 in C minor. This recording is performed on the harpsichord, an instrument that is the predecessor of the piano. There seem to be two schools of thought on this - one is to group similar things, and the other is to identify virtually everything.The former takes the approach that any accented dissonance (besides suspension or retardation IIRC) are appogiature. Is it because the C4falls on the first half of beat 2? Obviously it's to >embellish a descending line. >> I was trying to draw a parellel with the G minor version. They could be bigger leaps, but you often see >them in this fashion. Here it's a IV6.>>>>> bar 23 contains the 6th aloys. 1 in G Major (Minuets) (Passion 7). γ ?16.---------------------------------------17. I have been reading over your blog the past few months and I find it an absolute treasure, thank you Bryan for sharing your vast knowledge with us all! I have to constantly remind them that whole notes sound the entire measure :-)After you get burned a couple of times on it you start to notice it more quickly. Refers to the metronome setting. >>The symbols below then refer to melodic patterns in the>right hand part. Also, Minuet in G is written in 3/4 time, while A Lovers Concerto is written in 4/4 time. THE MUSIC SALON: classical music, popular culture, philosophy and anything else that catches my fancy Also important to note is that the sub dominant is a fifth below the tonic. I have read that often minuets were meant to be played in pairs andthat these two are companion pieces, but what is really important isthatthey sound so similiar and share many patterns. It features a famous and popular melody titled Minuet in G, a female vocal trio, and a mystery author. It features a famous and popular melody titled "Minuet in G", a female vocal trio, and a mystery author. (fux) recommends before the ending,>> although here it occurs in the soprano voice only as a melodic leap>> and not quite (slightly before) the part where aloys. Again, it's just as easy to call both the A and the C passing tones >and label the whole measure a G chord. Enjoy playing along with 1 backing tracks which you can control with the track display. This analysis will instead focus on partimento, figured bass, counterpoint, and music schema theory. Or upper neighbour. and publisher, 1730 It seemed>> like he was trying to do a major key version of the i6-viio6-i from>> m.27 of the minor piece we looked at.>>Why? So it's not a pair, it's an ABA form which is how a minuet and trio work - you're treating the second one as if it's the trio section of a da capo like form - this is common and I was instructed to do this on guitar, as aparently so many of the "greats" had recorded them. Composed: 1720 Info: Revised edition features . My copy of the 371 is by schirmer, andit's pretty well edited with extensive introduction and copiousfootnotes, so I trust it pretty well. As mentioned, we now know that it was really Christian Petzold. But Am works, too.. >>>>> OK - We are at the end of the first half of the melody, ending on a>> half cadence - which leaves it incomplete>>many use the term "open". Please confirm you want to block this member. The key is G major with a modulation (key change) to D major in the second section, starting at bar 20 with the introduction of the out-of-key note C# and the out-of-key chord A major. It starts first with a 3rd (C) over the scale degree (A) in the bass and then we see two consecutive accented passing notes D-C and B-A over an A bass ( scale degree). 2, Minuet, BWV Anh. II 116 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (J. S. Bach) * Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (G. F. Handel) * Mussette, Gavotte II or the Musette In Bach suites, he starts his first two with the minuets because,at the time, they were the most widely recognized form of dance. (app and sus areexplained pretty good, though). 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. But if you try to play those traids under the melody- it sounds a little *off* ( though I could probably get used to itif I played it enough times). Minuet in G minor 3. That's mygoal ( though I don't know how much I'll actually post -the bullshit inthis group is getting real old real fast )-----------------------------------. I>>>> Ambiguity: is the last beat of bar 1 V6/4 or viio6?>>Usually in that position, viio6, V6/4, and V4/3 are all common, however, the >C would usually go down if it were the 7th of the 4/3, or the o5 of the >viio, so V6/4 looks best, except for the fact that there's no chord tones >from that chord! Yes. J>>>>#4 in G major. >> 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. That's OK. >I think a better alternative is to consider the A3 a passing note in the >bass, along with the A4 and C5 in the sop. Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) There's usually some ancestral evolution to trace. 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 chord in that bar is an E minor chord, which functions as the vi chord in G major, and the ii chord in D major. This is a fascinating and fun little piece of music history that spans almost 300 years. I see it now. Yes, but an excellent place to start - especially for working out those ambiguities (or at least thinking about them in multiple ways). I read the notes as G down to E, now that I'veactually LOOKED, I see it's G up to B. I chose V6instead of viio in m.13 to give a ii-V-I here,but you could combinethem and say V7 with3 in the bass. Sheet Music: Schumann-Ich Grolle Nicht; Breitkopf & Hrtel, 1879-1912 IMO they were written at the same time as a demonstration betweenmajor and minor modes. Audio: Youtube >>>AS far as I recall, Reaching>>tones is a one off name and I don't hear it used. >>Anticipations are non-chord tones (dissonances) that are played BEFORE the >remaining voices arrive at the chord. 20 (1838-1839), Sheet Music: Chopin-Prelude No 20; Publisher: C.F. Period: Baroque: Piece Style Baroque: Instrumentation keyboard Primary Sources D-B Mus.ms. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 or maybe we'restill on G with a bit of activity in the bass is that C chordmoving to D7 on the last beat or is it all C? I was just being grouchy for a second there - theres not really muchbullshit in here (Well, besides). 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). >>Bach and Friends did a LOT with melodic fragments changing>and mutating through the course of a piece, but still being>recognizable. Recent scholarship reveals it to be by the rather obscure composer Christian Pezold. During this melody, it can be difficult to play the notes short and precise while maintaining the delicacy. Possibly composed by Johann Adolph Hasse. 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. I see it, but looking at it that way takes those measures out of thecontext of the phrasing. It seems to be going well, yeah. "Your opinion of Thile's Bach is . The idea of the two piece pair evolved from the "dance and after dance" pairs of the Renaissance, as did the forms themselves. Starts on a solid I V6 in G. >> however, I'll notate this as if we didn't.>> 17 18 19 20>> G D Em A> ___ ____ ____ _____> I V6 G:vi> D ii V. >>> 21 22 23 24> A 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>> * Not analyzing bass movement so strictly; i.e.not em6. 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. *: ambiguous - could be V6 or viio or just V with bass movement. The bass never leaves the G (it's a half note).>>>That D4 is a third voice entering for just these two measures (later in >>>m.29>>>too).>> A -HA. >only on a metrically weak position, but with the ET being shorter in value >(like the 16th of a dotted 8th-16th pair). The prinner terminates here into a half cadence and the C# on the first beat of the bar is a strong indication that the key has changed to the key of D from G. In many analyses, it is often bar 20 where the key change is noted. Search Write to us. But now I see this was where I needed to start at. We cadence to Bb at meas.16.Measures 17 -- 20 would seem to be in F and we are drifting back toBb in measure 22 and cadence to Bb in measure 24; then we slip intoG 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! >> The bass is now more animated, and suggestive of chords. At the end of this movement it seems to go back to the main melody theme played by the full orchestra., For example, the first eight measures of the piece feature constant, mostly scaler eighth notes with the horn starting the melody just barley louder than the eighth note lines which reference to the text of the first lines When peace like a river, attendeth my way,/When sorrow like sea billows roll creating a moment of text painting that is not directly relevant to Holsingers rendition due to performance media used (Timeless Truths, 2016). Anticipations are non-chord tones (dissonances) that are played BEFORE the remaining voices arrive at the chord. I just ignore it. >> I have read that often minuets were meant to be played in pairs and> that these two are companion pieces, but what is really important is> that> they sound so similiar and share many patterns. 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. Eventually, it switches back to the main melody until the song ends with a rich long tone from the lower, The structure of this piece is strophic, as the music follows the two stanzas if the poem the song uses. * Minuet in G, Wo0 10, No. I just figured the two of you knew something I didn't! Point against point, as opposed to a melody in the sopranowith chordal accompnyment [sp], compare these two pieces with bars 1 - 6 from #34 in Anna M's Notebook(Rezitativ und Arie - BWV 82). What I should have said is that the dominant is a fifth above the tonic and the subdominant a fifth below. mm. By contrast, the solo Sonatas and Partitas for violin or cello,as twoexamples,*are*pinnicles and so are rich in their potentional forillumination thru musical analysis. You can say that the E minor harmony implied in m. 18 acts as a common chord modulation, being the vi in G major and the ii in D major. Non-chord tones are in parentheses in the bass (only). The history of this piano is very checkered. "You are a teacher, a stimulating conversant, and an intellectual I find engaging because yours is not a formulaic or ideological approach, but rather combining contemplation with an unfinished and authentic quest for truth, and that in the human experiential rather than religious dogmatic sense. Required fields are marked *. >>>>>V4/3 -V6/5 | I (I6) | ii6-V-V | I>>>>The ii6 is a common thing to have on beat 1 of bar 15.>> now that one DOES sound nice with the full triads under it. The 6th is specifically a harmonic interval expanding to the octave. >>>> 5 6 7 8>> Am G D G G D7>> ____ ______ / / / ________>>>> ii I V I6 I V7>>What about m.5 being a V6/4? They analyzed a few chords, and left a few for the student. Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. In this blog article I will share 35 of the greatest piano sonatas in the literature. That's the same pattern as m.22! The slow second movement explores small sections of motifs in antecedent-consequent sometimes with the oboe until the thirds and final movement, the rondo. Audio: Youtube Publisher Info: Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive >(BIG disclaimer here - I'm looking at the Belwin edition that is >riddled with errors, so it's entirely possible that yours is different from >mine (and mine is probably less correct, but I'll assume it is OK for now). > How are you using the word 'accented'? It would have been an even clearer indication of a modulation if there had been the interval of a 6th in the bar over the G bass but we just have a 3rds and an 8th on the strong beats. 122 (1730) Bartok, Bela (1881-1945) Polonaise in G major, BWV Anh. Stand corrected. Copyright: Public Domain Tweet Follow @teoriaEng. Yes, I considered that. 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. Week 2. 115 (Not written by Bach; by Petzold) Musette in D major, BWV anh. It has a fast and skittish undertone, with constantly racing notes and moving rhythms. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In 2018, I started the Nikhil Hogan Show, a podcast dedicated to interviewing great musicians of many styles. Prinners sometimes leap to the scale degree before returning to the scale degree. It's got pieces in D that end on an E - >and they're not half cadences!!!!! First, there seems to be no discernible melody in theleft hand part! >>>>> end B section>>>> --->>>> The parellels with this and the 'companion piece' in G minor(anh 115)>> are pretty obvious.>>Well, and most other minuets in this style too. >> Analysis - Menuet in G Major by Christian Petzold BWV Anh.114 >> >> From "Anna Magdalena's Notebook" >> Form AABB Time Sig - 3/4 (obviously) . NCT Form down to the phrase level. March in G major 10. It does this through all the seven elements of music. ", "Your "blog" is priceless to me and many others.". The wholeAlias>reason I learned the piece in the first place LOL! I don't think it's necessary to analyze it here with different harmonies though. That's also the peice where I got the idea that Bach used b9 chords(m.3). >>>>>>>>> The change of the melody at m.15 gives it a feeling of finality>>> - the "answer" to the "question" raised at m.7>>>>Sure, ant phrase ends on ^2, HC, and cons phrase ends on ^1, AC. 1720 First Pub lication. Temporary modulation to D major, cadence occurs in measure 24. SL>Sorry, Schenker already beat you to it :-). Composers : Johann Sebastian Bach Publishers Peters, n.d. (1888) >>>>Anticipations are non-chord tones (dissonances) that are played BEFORE the>>remaining voices arrive at the chord. Some have considered the B bass note to be the scale degree in the key of G but it occurs on the weak beat of the bar and is more probably part of the inner harmony of the 5/3 chord on . I'd say in both meas. Andantino (Shinichi Suzuki) * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki) * Minuet No. . Print and download Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. Usually in that position, viio6, V6/4, and V4/3 are all common, however, the C would usually go down if it were the 7th of the 4/3, or the o5 of the viio, so V6/4 looks best, except for the fact that there's no chord tones from that chord! Alex's RCL Blogging Site 2.0 (the Good One), Bach Suite No. yours is right, too. That's not bass movement. I see it now.>>Good, I hate this Belwin edition. Yes, I wouldn't worry about it too much - more examples do tend to make all of them clearer. m.3 is a little more concrete, but it could just as easily indicate a viio4/3 (and again, the problem with the unresolved 7th). Anna M's notebook is just preliminary work to be gotten out of the waybefore attempting the really good stuff IMO. stuff like that tends to get thrown outthe window infavor of arguments about whether this one or that would have used a b9here or there etc. Introduction Essay on Minuet in G by J.S. It certainly "pushes" ahead, but I wouldn't describe its destination a "cadence" (more like breathing- out in out). So this isn't really counterpoint??? Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project, Performer pages: Stefano Ligoratti (harpsichord) Sure, ant phrase ends on ^2, HC, and cons phrase ends on ^1, AC. This quick stop on the scale degree then progresses to a half cadence in the next bar, ending the phrase. >>Textbook.>> ^2, HC -^1, AC> could you explain what this means? The structure of this piece can be labeled as ABA (last A varied). This Minuet by Bach is in binary form. Ambiguity: is the last beat of bar 1 V6/4 or viio6? That reminds me of my teaching style potty humor and all but it does get people to remember it! - some people consider app. 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. . In bar 15, the bass movements from to a compound cadence, which is two stages of in the bass. > I did some re-reading on non-harminic tones in Piston,and quite> frankly, he doesn't do a good enough job explaining things clearly.> I'm still confused about things such as incomplete> neighbors,anticipations, escape and reaching tones. everything else isjustextraneous stuff to occupy your spare time. Yeah, and I hope the V in its two inversions ring true. The symbols below then refer to melodic patterns in theright hand part. In Bach's day root movement was starting to take over, so insetead of the earlier A/F# to G/G, we get D/F# to G/G. Counterpoint is about lines, not chords. >>>> I find these pieces a little boring ->>Yes, but an excellent place to start - especially for working out those >ambiguities (or at least thinking about them in multiple ways). Ltd. is a private limited company incorporated in Singapore. And we can't complete the task without the financial support of our patrons. The C does go down to B (measure to measure), >and the 5th is omitted (a common omission). Also, they often occur with the escape tone being, not only on a metrically weak position, but with the ET being shorter in value (like the 16th of a dotted 8th-16th pair). It's a valid tool - just with the understanding that you can only sometimes use a flat head screwdriver on a Phillips head screw, but never the reverse.It's good to have both the Phillips and standard screwdrivers close by. There are still many recordings to be made before the whole of Bach's oeuvre is online. Topics: Binary form Dichterliebe, Op 48, VII Ich Grolle Nicht (1879-1912) >>escape tones are "usually" approached by step, and left by leap in the >opposite direction, like D E* C, C D* B, etc. BWV 813; Gavotte from French Suite No. Good, I hate this Belwin edition. My teacher said they (Dover)weren't bad as a general rule. Normally there would be an A minor chord. 11 in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV 841 (J.S. Public Domain - feel free to use, distribute, modify, (and play!) 0 . it's an ABA form which is how a minuet and . Peters, n.d. (1888) Check out "Doctrine of Affections" on Google. The word minuet means small, pretty and delicate. Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. Bach Minuet in g minor. Peters, n.d. (1888) There are a, In this article, our third in the Rhythm Exercises series, well be looking at some advanced and challenging rhythmic exercises. The middle section of the 2nd Minuet is a very lyrical but sad section. >>>>>>> 25* 26 27 28>> G C G D7 G D>> ___ ____ / / / ____>> I6 Iv I V764 I V>>m. "I've been reading your blog for nearly a year now, and as a college student new to the world of classical music I have to say it's been incredibly informative. >> Besides,to me these are just a preamble to the more ambitious works> of JSB - Inventions, Chorales,WTC and Goldberg stuff etc. Measures five to eight repeat a similar rhythmic section. >[snip]>>>> Yes. Sheet music for piano or harpsichord with melodic analysis (see below for details).Minuet in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV Anh. Part B . γ γ7.8.-----------------------------------------9. not the best written articles, but I get the point. 28 No. >> end A section.> ___________>> B section>> Countermelody. >>>(C is the consonance) and the first note of>>the measure with no obvious preparation (or many rests before you get back>>to the most previous note) then you really don't know whether it "would >>have>>been" a sus, app, or NT (or even PT potentially) they call them Incomplete>>Neighbo(u)rs.>> Im still lost here. 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? In the background of the piece is the sound of a faint fiddle. 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). Minuet and Trio for Brass Quartet (2 Trumpets, Trombone, Tuba); 3. 9, third movement, Discovering Musicians, Part 5: Kevin Puts. Textbook. I mention this because I can't see howto determine if that C4 is an upper neighbor or a suspension,forinstance . >> end B section>> --->> The parellels with this and the 'companion piece' in G minor(anh 115)> are pretty obvious. remember the 2+ 1 Harmonic Rhythm we discussed in the minor version? To be honest, I don't even remember the definition but I think it's a variation (like direction, or metric placement) of ET. Waltz in Ao, Op. Topics: Binary form Im still lost here. Bach) * Minuet No. This melody is mainly carried by the horn and trombone in the brass and low clarinet in the woodwinds (Holsinger, 1989). >> I did some re-reading on non-harminic tones in Piston,and quite>> frankly, he doesn't do a good enough job explaining things clearly.>> I'm still confused about things such as incomplete>> neighbors,anticipations, escape and reaching tones. I just wish he would have givenmore 'workbook' type examples that would help drive the point home. Bach, Johann Sebastian: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Lets break down this famous piece and lets see what we find out about it. www.pitt.edu/~deben look for alink to free Agent or maybe Freeagent. 116 sheet music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged for Piano. Maybe someonehas a better idea as to how to notate this? The F3 just enters as a "third voice".Note in m. 30 you put IV6 I V6. Textbook. Content copyright - Alex's RCL Blogging Site 2.0 (the Good One). 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. ^2 = scale degree 2. * Gavotte in D Major (J. S. Bach) * Bourre (J. S. Bach) The Role of Music in European Integration Albrecht Riethmller 2017-08-07 The volume focuses on music during the process of European integration since the Second World War . Sortie in F major for Organ; 4. and Mozart combines historical perspectives with recent developments in music analysis to shed new light on this distinctive part of the repertoire. Minuet in G BWV Anh. In the year 1725, Bach presented Anna Magdalena with a notebook full of sheet music by various composers, including pieces written by Bach himself. Songs that are more regular in rhythm are catchy and more peaceful in a way. ;-)>> I understand what everything means except UN. The whole notes gradually BUILD into something.onlygradually do they become more animated. )>>So do my theory students. Peters, n.d.[1879] The same color means a recurring melodic figure.Small gaps within a recurring melodic figure signify mutations, changes in the size or direction of the intervals.A saw-toothed edge means that the melodic figure has been truncated at the head, tail, or both.Melodic figures that are part of a sequence or imitative passage that does not appear elsewhere, are marked grey. > I've always thought of much of >this as "gems" and nice models. 5 in G Major, BWV 816; Minuet from French Suite No. In Bar 19, it is the 3rd stage of the modulating prinner on scale degree of D major. vi even less so, especially since there's no >E. It's lovely, isn't it? 2 (L. van Beethoven) * Minuet from Sei Quintetti per Archi No. 130. Abstract and Figures. (phrase end, that is)>>Misunderstanding. Theme (1820), Sheet Music: Betthoven-piano Soanta 30 III; Publisher: Breitkopf und Hrtel, 1820 (I play the G majoronewith no ornaments, then the Gm one, and then a fully embellished Gmajoragain, with no repeats). UPDATE: This post is now over four years old, but it has risen to be the most popular post on The Music Salon. I>>>> * = same as previous. There are enough in the 371 to cull examples. Minuet in G major 8. @.> wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005 17:37:10 GMT, "Steve Latham" <, On Tue, 31 May 2005 18:19:20 GMT, "Steve Latham" <, >I think a better alternative is to consider the A3 a passing note in the, Oopswhen I said "this whole thing", I only meant the immediately, Alias>>> I was trying to draw a parellel with the G minor version. 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 ). They're both about the same level of difficulty (RCM/ABRSM grade 3). Mozart) * Musette in D Major, BWV Anh.126 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (J.S. Publisher: Paris: Ivan Ili Here's a good audio example: https://youtu.be/pzbr6ZGk4zs?t=1m43s Reply carnegiehall 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). Topics: Binary form Bach: Minuet, Prelude in C * Beethoven: Fur Elise, Minuet in G, Sonatina No. ]mm10 & 12 - bass notes not analyzed as part of structure. From "Anna Magdalena's Notebook"Form AABB Time Sig - 3/4 (obviously), Simple Melody with simple LH counterpoint, G * G/B C * G / / / ____ / / / ____. In this recording, there is an added drone accompaniment that was not in the original single melodic line manuscript. @.> wrote: I stand by what I said. There are many harmonic analyses available on YouTube but I would like to offer an analysis that is quite different, based on my study of Partimento and Counterpoint. 5 in E Major (L. Boccherini). >> Thats what I was alluding to before. I dread having to do that business withnumbering the 12 tone chromatic scale and writing things like[3, 8, 10, 12, 1, 3] for "alpha" but it may come to that >I stand by what I said. And they ask a question. (app and sus are>> explained pretty good, though). But I don't feel like those last 4 are a prolongation of V. Like the beginning second 4 measures of the phrase, it more harmonic activity pushing to the cadence. At first, the melody seems calm as it proceeds primarily by step within a low register. 15 * J.S. 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. I didn't mention it because it was pretty clear to me.>. The parellels with this and the 'companion piece' in G minor(anh 115)are pretty obvious.I'll just point out that the two pieces alsodemonstrate in a basic introductory way, the differences in emotionalquality between major and minor . >>>>>>>>>V4/3 -V6/5 | I (I6) | ii6-V-V | I>>>>>>The ii6 is a common thing to have on beat 1 of bar 15.>>>> now that one DOES sound nice with the full triads under it.>>Yeah, and I hope the V in its two inversions ring true. It proceeds primarily by step within a low register Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV (... Quartet ( 2 Trumpets, Trombone, Tuba ) ; 3 melodic line manuscript the chord measure.... 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