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The Open University

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

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Overview

The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, you will use Beethoven's Eighth Symphony to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Voice-leading analysis of form
  • 1 Voice-leading analysis of form
  • 1.1 Identifying the background level of the harmony
  • 1.2 Form in Beethoven's symphonic writing
  • 1.3 The different elements of a background graph
  • 2 Analysing the form of the Minuet and Trio
  • 2 Analysing the form of the Minuet and Trio
  • 3 Analysing the form of the first movement
  • 3 Analysing the form of the first movement
  • 3.1 Points to understand
  • 3.2 The fundamental structure and the form
  • 3.3 What is the point to voice-leading analysis of form?
  • 4 Voice-leading analysis and sonata form
  • 4 Voice-leading analysis and sonata form
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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