Day Thirteen: Hearing and Analysis

Through analysis, you learn the way to hear a piece of music. Musical example is transition harmony of first movement of Beethoven’s 7th.

This post is part of 14 Days of Harmony, a free course for musicians who want to deepen their understanding of harmony, and learn how to develop their connection with sound as a result. You can view the entire course here.

The purpose of this lesson is to teach you how to analyze any tonal piece of music, and in doing so, understand the possibility of writing or performing one yourself. 

The work of re-familiarizing yourself with the inner feeling of the intervals and diatonic chord progressions can now be put to use when analyzing a piece of music with the goal of finding out how it articulates, how it breathes. For example, you know how an interval of a fourth feels like, and how the movement from the tonic to its subdominant feels like. 

In musical analysis these feelings that emerge from foundations are the most important aspects to pay attention to. These feelings are what give life to the piece, and you'll see that these are the most permanent structures that we take with us. Very …