Does anyone know of an online source of harmonic analysis? I am looking for a harmonic analysis of the first two movements of mozart's piano sonata in A minor - k.310. Help, please. This piece is driving me insane.
Thanks,C. Pierce
Hi Christine,
One of Guenter Nagler's Midi utilities does a chordal analysis of a midi file. If you have a midi of the piece, you could try this. There's a link to his page (and a zippped compendium of all the utilities) on the Scriptorium.
If not, or if you're not comfortable with command-line interpreters (DOS), try a web search using keywords like +"harmonic analysis" +Mozart.
Fred
Christine,
Check out this link:
http://www.harmony.org.uk/
It is a website by a guy who is writing a theory book. Using his own personal harmonic theory, he does a complete harmonic analysis of only the first movement of the piano sonata. Sorry . . . not the second mov.
You should also read his book sections and thesis. He says a lot of really intelligent things, and you might need to look at his ideas in order to completely understand his analysis. Good luck.
Halim
I don't play the piano but I want to learn just so I can play K 310. It's the most amazing piece of music I have ever heard and ever expect to hear. It's packed with so much feeling and abandon. I first heard it on a CD called Emil Gilels: the Giant. I heard other recordings by other artists but his is the best and most enlightening. He played it as though he was Mozart. I'm telling you, I can't say enough about it - it's just fabulous. If you want to understand k 310 better try to find this recording. I found it at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh but I think it's not sold anymore - someone told me it is out of print. Good luck! If anyone wants to talk more about this piece or if anyone knows where I could get this CD -- feel free to email me at vered7878@hotmail.com.