Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of '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 second in the AA314 series of three courses on this form of harmonic analysis, and concentrates on the 'middleground level' of voice leading. As you work through this course, you will become familiar with the deeper levels of harmony in Mozart's piano sonatas.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Voice-leading concepts
• 1.2 Moving beyond the foreground
• 2 Melodies within melodies
• 2 Melodies within melodies
• 3 Unfolding
• 3 Unfolding
• 3.1 Unfolding in Mozart
• 3.2 Identifying unfoldings
• 3.3 Unfolding: a summary
• 4 Self-contained musical structures
• 4 Self-contained musical structures
• 5 Interruption
• 5 Interruption
• 5.1 Interruption as a structural device
• 5.2 Identifying an interrupted structure
• 5.3 Interrupted structure and typical features of the style
• 5.4 Different analyses of a single theme
• 5.5 Interruption: a summary
• 6 Towards a deeper level of structure
• 6 Towards a deeper level of structure
• 6.1 Considering patterns on a larger scale
• 6.2 The idea of the background, and course summary
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements