Extended Analysis Part 5: Reflection

Hello I'm back again and now I have finally finished my Extended Analysis. For my analysis, I only analyzed a small portion of the piece up to a the first cadence (8th Measure). Even though my Analysis was quite short, I did have a hard time analyzing this piece. I think one of the things that was very unique about this piece was that this song did not follow the rules. One of the challenging was noticing the different kinds of chords. There were chords that added different noes within a key, such as adding a 6th when there is a triad of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scale degrees. Also, another thing that was different was that there were some missing notes in a chords and voice leading that was hard to understand. For example, a chord that I would have trouble is a C Major chord that had a missing E and only had the notes C and G. Because this was in the key of Eb Minor, it was hard to distinguish when there was a key change and when there was a modulation throughout the piece. Because there were accidentals in the piece and along with the chords that were not recognizable, I knew that here was a modulation. The last thing that I would like to note was the aspect of this piece that I liked the most, the dissonance of this piece. Even though this piece this piece was in Eb Minor, relative to Cb Major, this piece still sounded great. It is a common misconception that more dissonance is less pleasing to the human ear. If dissonance is in the right context, then it will sound great to anyone that listens to it. Overall, this extended analysis has been a great assignment that showed me a lot of new things about music that I have not realized before. I would love to analyze another piece of music, because I know that I will learn something new.