Thursday, September 27, 2007
Music Analysis 2 (Recess week)
For the blog assignment this time round, I'll be analysing on a duet called When God Made You by Newsong and Natalie Grant. A friend of mine introduced it to me last week and I was immediately attracted to the soothing introduction, albeit a bit short. Coupled with meaningful and touching lyrics, this is a wonderful song. I've posted the youtube video above, listen to it if you're free. :)
Analysis of song(duet) When God Made You (opening phrase)
The song started off in the key of D, but when it reaches the opening phrase in bar 5, there was an abrupt modulation(i hope i got this right!) to C Major. There are a lot of modulations in this song, most probably because it's a duet meant for a male and female, and as we know, there is quite a difference in our voice ranges. But anw, I'll just be analysing on the opening phrase, which is from bar 5 to 8.
Roman Numerals: I - V - vi7 - IV - I6 - IV - V
The literal Harmonic Function I get out of the roman numerals are actually:
T- D - (T) - PD - T - PD - D
However, I would like to treat the T - D - (T) (purple part) as a tonic expansion, and PD - T - PD (orange) as a predominant expansion, and this would result in a harmonic function of T - PD - D, and a T on the subsequent phrase, which isn't shown. This would be the 'classic' Harmonic Phrase Model that we have learnt during music class.
Highlighted in bar 7, the 1st inversion of chord I is used here. This is to smoothen out the bassline to form bass notes F-E-F-G (bars 7 & 8). Imagine if the root position of chord I was used, the bass notes would form F-C-F-G, which really isn't very smooth.
For this first phrase, there is one non-harmonic tone which can be found in bar 6. The highlighted note (B) in the right hand part is a Neighbour Tone (NT), which is approached by step from the note C and proceeded by step to a C.
That's all for now, I really hope i can get a full music sheet for this then I can finish analysing the song because it's nice! :)
Analysis of song(duet) When God Made You (opening phrase)
The song started off in the key of D, but when it reaches the opening phrase in bar 5, there was an abrupt modulation(i hope i got this right!) to C Major. There are a lot of modulations in this song, most probably because it's a duet meant for a male and female, and as we know, there is quite a difference in our voice ranges. But anw, I'll just be analysing on the opening phrase, which is from bar 5 to 8.
Roman Numerals: I - V - vi7 - IV - I6 - IV - V
The literal Harmonic Function I get out of the roman numerals are actually:
T- D - (T) - PD - T - PD - D
However, I would like to treat the T - D - (T) (purple part) as a tonic expansion, and PD - T - PD (orange) as a predominant expansion, and this would result in a harmonic function of T - PD - D, and a T on the subsequent phrase, which isn't shown. This would be the 'classic' Harmonic Phrase Model that we have learnt during music class.
Highlighted in bar 7, the 1st inversion of chord I is used here. This is to smoothen out the bassline to form bass notes F-E-F-G (bars 7 & 8). Imagine if the root position of chord I was used, the bass notes would form F-C-F-G, which really isn't very smooth.
For this first phrase, there is one non-harmonic tone which can be found in bar 6. The highlighted note (B) in the right hand part is a Neighbour Tone (NT), which is approached by step from the note C and proceeded by step to a C.
That's all for now, I really hope i can get a full music sheet for this then I can finish analysing the song because it's nice! :)
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Music Analysis 1 (E-learning week)
Hello!
For my 1st music blogging assignment, I'll be doing an analysis on a song by Collin Raye called Love, Me. For those who have not heard this song before, I've posted a youtube video of it above this post. Spend a lil time listening to it, it's a nice song. :)
Analysis of the song Love, Me (opening phrase)
This song is written in C Major, which makes things easier.
Roman Numeral analysis: I - V6 - vi - IV - V - I
Harmonic function: T - D - (T) - PD - D - T
The 1st phrase of this song has 2 harmonic phrases, first being T-D-(T), and the second PD-D-T.
It is also interesting to note that the composer/arranger used the 1st inversion of the 2nd chord (ie. 1st Dominant), because then the bass note that it forms becomes a passing note between the 1st and 3rd bass notes --> C-B-A.
Alrights, that's all I have for now.
Enjoy ur weekend everyone. :)
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