Harmony and Tonality

Question 1

Bar 6

Answer 1

Very ambiguous tonality

Question 2

B41

Answer 2

Clear triadic pattern Ab / G in strings.

Question 3

B42

Answer 3

F major

Question 4

B43

Answer 4

Em scale passage to C / Cm

Very mercurial tonality but Cm asserted by what follows

Question 5

B47

Answer 5

C scale to Bb

Leads to 3 bar rising sequence to cadence on C minor

Question 6

B52

Answer 6

Ascending scale on trilled piccolo

Question 7

B55

Answer 7

Very dissant

Question 8

B87

Answer 8

C major

Question 9

B98

Answer 9

Dissonant against melody A/G/Fm/Gm in strings

Question 10

B119

Answer 10

C major

Question 11

B125

Answer 11

F# in horns, moving us away from C major

Question 12

B133

Answer 12

E minor in bassoons

Question 13

B134

Answer 13

C major in bassoons

Question 14

B144

Answer 14

F# in the lower horns, very totally distant from C major (tritone)

Question 15

B156

Answer 15

Em chord

Question 16

B162

Answer 16

Same key as the opening

Question 17

B163

Answer 17

Am

Question 18

B200

Answer 18

Now f# in flutes instead of F natural - this has a tritone relationship to C minor and unstable

Question 19

B201

Answer 19

C# minor

Question 20

B212

Answer 20

F# - C# at ff emphasises the tritone relationship

Question 21

B20

Answer 21

C minor

Question 22

B242

Answer 22

A minor

Question 23

B247

Answer 23

E in piccolo emphasised as V of the final A. Also reinforced by G#

Question 24

B249

Answer 24

Cadence has a chromatic alteration (G - G#)