This course completes your introduction to the systematic analysis of voice leading in pieces of tonal music. You have encountered a large number of new technical words and ideas in this course. The following terms are the principal ones that have been discussed.
foreground, middleground and background
fundamental structure
fundamental line
primary tone
initial ascent, prolongation of the primary tone, structural descent, structural coda
structural cadence
interrupted form
This course does not expect you to be able to analyse a whole movement's background structure yourself from scratch. However, you should now understand the sorts of musical observation that go into making such an analysis, and be able to read an analytical graph in relation to the score of the music, and discuss the musical thoughts that it embodies.
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