This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The course is the first in the AA314 series of three courses on this form of harmonic analysis, and concentrates on the 'foreground level' of voice leading. As you work through this course, you will become familiar with five complete movements of Mozart's piano sonatas, as well as shorter extracts from some of his other sonatas.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Introduction: Mozart's piano sonatas
- 1 Introduction: Mozart's piano sonatas
- 1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas
- 1.2 Analysing harmony
- 1.3 The origins of voice-leading analysis
- 1.4 Some introductory listening
- 2 What is voice leading?
- 2 What is voice leading?
- 2.1 Two examples
- 2.2 Listening for lines within the harmony
- 3 The elements of voice-leading analysis
- 3 The elements of voice-leading analysis
- 3.1 Introduction to the elements of voice-leading analysis
- 3.2 Simple reductive processes
- 3.3 Categories of dissonance in tonal music
- 3.3.1 Passing notes
- 3.3.2 Neighbour notes
- 3.3.3 Suspensions
- 3.4 The concept of prolongation
- 3.4.1 Arpeggiation
- 3.5 Making a foreground reduction
- 3.6 A second reduction: analytical levels
- 3.7 Analytical notation
- 4 Conclusion
- 4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
