OK - We are at the end of the first half of the melody, ending on ahalf cadence - which leaves it incomplete mm.5-6 I've decide to interpret the chords full bar, which can beargued with, but my analysis is leaning more towardsmelody here and the actual chords seem less important right now. No, you're mixing two things. On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:59:36 GMT, Alias <. >> 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. Bach) Bar 1 begins on a common 5/3 chord on the scale degree in the bass and the perfect consonance of a 5th in the upper voice. 116 Full Track $ 34 95 Buy license 1:55 Johann Sebastian Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. Check out "Doctrine of Affections" on Google. ^2 = scale degree 2. This familiar minuet by J.S. The Urtext just inserts a quarter rest>> before it in parenthesis ( and I *still* miss it. And I never did. >> All interpretations are valid given the context of the actual notes> placed before us.The answer depends on what> expectations we superimpose over what is shown,> based on what we know about *other* pieces .>> 5 6 7 8>> Am G D G G D7>> ____ ______ / / / ________>> ii I V I6 I V7. a ii chord. Bach, Johann Sebastian: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Suzuki) * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki) * Minuet No. I just wish he would have given> more 'workbook' type examples that would help drive the point home. You've mentioned this a couple of times and Ihaven'tSL>really said too much, but, most minuets kind of follow generalpatterns andSL>you could probably find many with even close parallels to both. mm. Audio: Youtube A subreddit for people who care about composition, cognition, harmony, scales, counterpoint, melody, logic, math, structure, notation, and also the overall history and appreciation of music. Your email address will not be published. Dichterliebe, Op 48, VII Ich Grolle Nicht (1879-1912) other similarities I see may or may not be characteristic of minuetsin general,so I've not mentioned them here. 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. This title is available in SmartMusic. >> Besides,to me these are just a preamble to the more ambitious works> of JSB - Inventions, Chorales,WTC and Goldberg stuff etc. It's all I - I6. has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. >>>>No it's all V. Agian, my edition has the bass a dotted half, so it lasts >>the>>entire measure. Using the chords to see which they sound like they're a part of is a good idea, but don't pass judgement solely on that :-). Harmonic Analysis Part A. "Your opinion of Thile's Bach is . Again, it's just as easy to call both the A and the C passing tones and label the whole measure a G chord. The time signature, also known as the metre is 3 crotchet beats in a bar. α α12. Composed: 1720 Info: In fact, this is the >>first>>mention I've heard of it for a while. The final 7th to 6th accented passing note sequence leads to a marks a change from a movement of parallel 3rds into parallel 6ths. strings sound hesitant, creating a delicate and sensitive sound. >>>>I'd say I - I6 - IV - I6> // / ---- ------> Just to clarify.>>>>>> 5 6 7 8>>> Am G D G G D7>>> ____ ______ / / / ________>>>>>> ii I V I6 I V7>>>>What about m.5 being a V6/4? 114, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.This piece is now attributed to Christian Petzold.Source: 'Notenbchlein der Anna Magdalena Bach' (1725), manuscript preserved at the Berlin State Library.00:00 Titles - Part 100:27 Part 1 Repeat00:51 Part 201:15 Part 2 RepeatUrtext edition: https://youtu.be/cnOL_3uXtAgStudent edition with full fingering and written out ornaments: https://youtu.be/IH6ir1rTDBAMelodic analysis:Key melodic figures, from short motifs to larger thematic units, are marked with a distinct color.A new color means a new melodic figure. (It's got to dowith droppng the weight on the whole notes,lifting motion on smallernote values and cadences LH non legato LH vs legato RH etc)You have toliterally see someone do it. They're two different works. I'll hazard a guess, though. Anticipations are non-chord tones (dissonances) that are played BEFORE the remaining voices arrive at the chord. ;-), I find these pieces a little boring -I'm working on "Air on a GString' next. Bar 2 is straightforward with every note being a chord tone of a 6/3 chord on the scale degree. butit's good food for thought. What I should have said is that the dominant is a fifth above the tonic and the subdominant a fifth below. In bar 6, the previous bar is repeated a step down over the scale degree. (J. S. Bach) * Minuet No. In bar 3, we see a repetition of the idea in the first bar on the scale degree, and this time the counterpoint is simpler with every passing note on the appropriate weak beats of the bar. Minuet in G major, BWV 841 (not to be confused with Petzold's Minuet in G Major in the 1725 notebook). There are only a few surviving works by Petzold left, and this one is one of few by him. Bar 21, is a continuation of the half cadence in D. We have still not seen the confirming cadence in the key of D necessary to confirm an actual key change. Dissonances are labeled in red and consonances in blue. My areas of interest in music are partimento, counterpoint, Italian solfeggio, music schema theory, and Catholic sacred music. [Ambiguity: is the last beat of.? The 6th is specifically a harmonic interval expanding to the octave. And I never did. @.> wrote in message >news:9b1u815d62a9l41v9@4ax.com>> Analysis - Menuet in G Major by Christian Petzold BWV Anh.114>>>> From "Anna Magdalena's Notebook">> Form AABB Time Sig - 3/4 (obviously)>>>>>> Simple Melody with simple LH counterpoint>>>> A Section:>>>> 1 2 3 4>>>> G * G/B C * G>> / / / ____ / / / ____>>>> I ? During Bach's lifetime, the piano did notexist yet. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This chord does not belong to G major. vi even less so, especially since there's no E. It's simply a I6. >> PS - we don't have to dwell on this to death, I'm sure things will> become clearer in time as I study more and more pieces. Mozart) * Minuet I from 8 Minuets with Trio, 315g (W.A. They're two different works. March in D major (CPE Bach) 6. Sheet music for piano or harpsichord with melodic analysis (see below for details).Minuet in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 841, from the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.Source: 'Klavierbchlein fr Wilhelm Friedemann Bach' (1720), manuscript preserved at the Library of the School of Music, Yale University.00:00 Titles - Part 100:19 Part 1 Repeat00:35 Part 201:07 Part 2 RepeatUrtext edition: https://youtu.be/-R24TCqSDzcStudent edition with full fingering and written out ornaments: https://youtu.be/hkxjp1dFtVQMelodic analysis:Key melodic figures, from short motifs to larger thematic units, are marked with a distinct color.A new color means a new melodic figure. >>>>>>>>>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. Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) The word minuet means small, pretty and delicate. >>>AS far as I recall, Reaching>>tones is a one off name and I don't hear it used. The bass never leaves the G (it's a half note). This is evidenced by an quote shared in Professor Robert O. Gjerdingens Music in the Galant Style: (Amazon Affiliate link), The minuet, monsieur, is the queen of dances, and the dance of queens, do you understand? Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) >>>>>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. Just addingmore animation to the part (kind of like the bassist is getting boredand want's to stretch a bit), Am D G Em D7 G / / / / / / ____ _____ii ii V6 I I vi V7 I, The change of the melody at m.15 gives it a feeling of finality- the "answer" to the "question" raised at m.7. I hear that high Bb as the defining moment of the chord. Ambiguity: is the last beat of bar 1 V6/4 or viio6? - some people consider app. We cadence to Bb at meas.>16.>Measures 17 -- 20 would seem to be in F and we are drifting back to>Bb in measure 22 and cadence to Bb in measure 24; then we slip into>G 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! it's an ABA form which is how a minuet and . Peters, n.d.[1879] 2, Minuet, BWV Anh. Congratulations for running a comments section full of enlightening aesthetic debates. Courtesy of http://www.SheetMusicFox.com, Performer Pages: Martha Goldstein (Piano) >> [snip]>>>Ahh, what about that V in bar 13 - now it makes more sense from above>>doesn't it? In both of these cases some type of G chord is more >obvious. 21 (1890) I also considered the fact that if I'm playingthe melody in the RH, I can only play close position chords in theleft, which is not ideal for working this out. >There is of course evolutionary development, and the two co-exist, but, as >I've said before, everything does not have to be a chord. I see it, but looking at it that way takes those measures out of thecontext of the phrasing. So start the B on the beat and sort of "fall" into the A. It's still quick but it doesn't have that snap sound. >>or maybe we're>> still on G with a bit of activity in the bass>>Yes.>> is that C chord>> moving to D7 on the last beat or is it all C?>>Don't see this??? Instrumental Solo in G Major. These moments are reflected quite simply, but still beautifully in Holsingers arrangement of the hymn that has worked its way to become a concert band, commonly found in Haydns music. You can download a free trial version atwww.forteinc.com. One of the most common is to strike>>the Tonic pitch (usually in soprano) during the last V chord and hold it>>into, or repeat that note on the I chord.>> This I can grasp a bit easier, although I'd prefer a wider range of> examples to draw from than Piston offers.I doubt I could Identify them> in any given piece based solely on the info he provided. That's the same pattern as m.22! Bar 8 is a half cadence, where the music ends on a scale degree. 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. Minuet in G minor 7. Actually, I got the idea from this exchange you had with J Jensen: >Also, the really interesting question involves the companion piece>#4 in G major. Minuet in G Major is one of the many famous compositions of Johannes Sebastian Bach. In Bar 17, its possible to view the piece in G on the scale degree, but we could also consider it the 1st stage of a modulating prinner as the scale degree in D major. >MEASURE MINUET IN G Minuet in Gm> pattern Pattern>----- ---------- ----------->1. I IV IV ? No it's all V. Agian, my edition has the bass a dotted half, so it lasts the entire measure. My First Bach contains many of these educational pieces which are, for the most part, arranged in increasing difficulty. Please help us to complete the musical heritage of Bach, by supporting us with a donation! Then the full orchestra plays. They analyzed a few chords, and left a few for >the student. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm. Consider it. I am so thankful for obsessive thinkers and writers like yourself who give us something interesting and intellectually nourishing to chew on almost every day. One of the most famous arrangements of this Minuet was recorded by The Toys, a girl group from Jamaica, New York, as "A Lover's Concerto." The song was a #1 single in the US and reached #5 on the UK Global charts. The pivot chord is in measure 19. 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. The main tune is characterised by a falling motif which gives the effect of falling raindrops. Besides,to me these are just a preamble to the more ambitious worksof JSB - Inventions, Chorales,WTC and Goldberg stuff etc. Formerly attributed to J.S. Is it because the C4falls on the first half of beat 2? γ γ15. In the G minor one, it is more complicated. (I play the G majoronewith no ornaments, then the Gm one, and then a fully embellished Gmajoragain, with no repeats). Yes, but an excellent place to start - especially for working out those ambiguities (or at least thinking about them in multiple ways). 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