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Highlight and explain the interest of an harmonic feature from the 2nd mvt. of Schubert's Piano Trio in Bb.

A sense of threat, and possibly even death, is evoked in the movement’s harmonic workings through the tritone. The first explicit tritone interval is exploited in bars 23-4, between A natural and Eb, when th...
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Illustrate ways in which an accompaniment can contribute to the interpretation of the text in a Lied. Answer with reference to the music of at least two composers.

Lied (plural: Lieder ) is the quintessential genre of German Romanticism, whose key aesthetic ideas are found in their most concentrated form in the Lieder of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, among ...
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How do I harmonise a Bach chorale?

There is a small journey to make before you can get up to harmonising Bach Chorales. I would first recommend purchasing a (cheap) copy of Riemenschneider complete Bach chorales, and taking the time (2 min/da...
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What is Sonata form and what are its defining features?

Sonata form is a structure containing three main parts that emerged in mid-18th Century classical music. The three parts are called the exposition, development, and recapitulation, coming in that order. In t...
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What is sonata form, and how can I identify it when analyzing a piece of music?

Sonata form is often found in music of the Classical era, for example in the string quartets or symphonic movements by composers such as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Sonata form is essentially a three-part ...
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