Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
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Learn about the background structure of tonal music and how to analyze it using Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. Understand the decisions and observations involved in analyzing music and relate them to specific events in the score. Enhance your understanding of voice-leading analysis with this free course.
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.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Describe the nature of the background structure of a piece of tonal music
Understand the difference between analysis which is definitely right or wrong and that which is dependent on individual judgement
Relate the notes of a background graph and the indications of bar numbers to specific events in the musical score
Understand the sorts of decisions and observations that go towards analysing the background structure of a piece of music
Recognise the analytical statements about the various parts of a piece of music that are contained in a background graph.
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