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…
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…
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…
