Basic Applied Analysis via Tarrega’s Prelude No. 5 (Jun 17) Questions / Suggestions
Join me on Thursday, June 17th as I walk you though the basics of harmonic and form analysis, how to dissect a piece down to its most basic building blocks to aid in furthering your knowledge and familiarity with the language of tonal harmony.
In this livestream, we will be analyzing Francisco Tarrega’s Prelude No. 5, one of our most popular lesson pieces on the platform. This short yet beautiful piece presents an excellent playground for us to explore the outskirts of tonal harmony.
Download Tarrega's Prelude no. 5 by clicking this text.
Tarrega was writing this music in the late Romantic Era, a time when composers were implementing increased chromaticism and complex themes. In his collection of preludes, Tarrega’s style of composing opens like a blooming rose as each prelude passes. Prelude No. 5 rests somewhere in a safe zone in which complexity and artistry remain subdued, yet effective.
Ashley Lucero teaches the basics of harmonic and form analysis via Francisco Tarrega’s “Prelude No. 5” and Francois Couperin’s “Les Baricades Mistérieuses”. Learn how to label harmonies, identify phrases, cadences, and sections, and even thematic material. Use this knowledge to gain a deeper insight into the connection between composer and performer.
Find the start time in your time zone by clicking the photo or following this event link:
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/applied-analysis-tarrega-couperin
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have about this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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Hello Ashley:
This sounds very interesting. Looking forward to watching this tomorrow as it will be 2 am for me when you go live.
Have a fun live! About "Les Barricades Misterieuses":
- Which transcription will you use?
- Just curious, which transcription would you recommend / or is your favorite?
I'm using an arrangement by Jewgeni Smirnow (found on IMSLP.ORG) in C mayor.
Thanks
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Phil Meissner thank you Phil! We used the same transcription as you during this livestream. We addressed this at the very end of the event and briefly a few times in-between.
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Mircea Thank you very much Ashley and Mircea!
This was an awesome live! Excellent introduction and analysis of the pieces. I hope you can do more like this so we can get to watch the thought process that goes into analyzing a piece. Learned a lot and inspired me to sit down with another version of LBM (one by David Rusell) to analyze compare the differences.
May I suggest the S.L. Weiss Fantasie that has a lesson in tonebase for a future session? Or something by Fernando Sor?
IMO, Leaving questions for the end makes the presentation flow much better. Especially for people like me that, because of time differences, usually watch the recordings afterwards.
Thanks again!
Philippe
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Phil Meissner Thanks so much :) And we'll definitely have an analysis livestream on Sor's music at some point! Thanks for the suggestions and feedback, it's very helpful!
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Thank you, Ashley and Mircea, for a excellent presentation on how to analyze a music score. I really am drawn to these discussions. I earlier messaged that I am so interested in even deeper analysis. Many of the "tangents" you mentioned in today's session would be of great interest. I am starting to learning Julia Florida and Capricho Arabe. I consider these necessary for my Classical Guitar players membership card (joke). I would like to also know more about how to analyze Scarlatti Sonatas (K 322/L 483 and L 238/ K 208. Bach's Allemande BWV 996 is also of interest. I figure I need about 8 to 10 more demonstrations of scores analyzed to really help me. However, what I saw today was great. Very helpful in connecting dots. Grateful. Thank you for your hard work.
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Stephen Holland Thank you so much for your feedback! It's really great to hear about your specific interests in these areas and to hear your enthusiasm. Looking forward to it!
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Beautiful lesson of Harmony, very good Prof
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Hi Ashley, sorry I had to leave early last night, however I finished watching the livestream today. I really enjoyed it and I've already used what I learned to analyse a very simple Tarrega etude. As you said, there was a lot of information in the presentation and, whilst some parts I understand, I would love to learn more. Are there any books you recommend to you students?
Mircea asked for feedback about the session format - I liked it very much. It's good to have the pre-chat so everyone can join and connect and for me, holding the questions until the end allows the session to flow better. I also appreciated having a structure for the session, so well done!
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Ron Thanks so much for the feedback! I agree that it's so helpful to stay on track and keep everyone informed about where we are in the stream. I'm also really glad to hear you're already using the information I shared to do your own analysis. Feel free to share it with us!
The book I generally use is Tonal Harmony by Kosta/Payne but I do not swear by it. It's well-laid out and clear but it's a bit outdated and I know there's plenty of materials out there that would benefit it in combination.
Hope this helps!
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thanks Ashley. I checked it out this morning and I've found several editions - I think the latest is the 8th edition. They're quite pricey but I think there are some second hand copies on ebay which maybe a good place to start!
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Ron I use the 7th edition and am quite happy with it! Checked Scribd.com :)
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thanks Ash - I've managed to order a second hand copy from the US. It doesn't arrive until August, but I'm using other resoures online until then. I'll also check out Scribd
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Hi Ash,
Will you be able to post copies of the Scores with your structural notations indicated, along with your summary notes of the lesson? They would be very helpful as reference.
Your presentation and lesson content were great!! I look forward to the next lessons in this area to go deeper. thanks!!!
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Barney That's so great to hear that you enjoyed the stream! I have posted the notes and scores in my comment below and in the main post :) I too look forward to doing more!
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Thank you so much for this in-depth analysis. Loved the format.
The transcription by Richard Yates is very good, uses I V I V7 instead of I V I V in A section.
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Grant It was my pleasure to share the knowledge and fun!
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Howdy everyone! Thank you so much for attending my first harmonic analysis stream! I can't wait to do some more and to continually work to improve them. I have attached the outline notes and scores from yesterday's stream to this comment and above in the initial post.
Looking forward to reading through your questions and requests!
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thanks Ash!!
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thanks Ashley
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Very interesting live stream, with very valuable information about harmonic and structure analisys. Mircea and Ashley are great teachers.....The format of the livestram well structured...I like it.....looking forward for more sessions covering the analisys.... :-)
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JUAN ALONSO Thank you for the feedback! So glad to hear that there's definitely a demand for more!
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I watched the recording. It is great! I am a novice in classical guitar and music. I could follow most of it; a testament of clarity of your delivery. I plan to watch it again. More like this please. Thank you Ashley.
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Outstanding! This is very helpful and interesting. Well done. I would love to see series on this subject with contrasting works such as:
Baden Powel “O Astronauta”, Villa-Lobos “Schottish-Choro”, Albeniz “Córdoba”, and Piazzola “Invierno porteño”.
Thank you,
Alejandro Munevar
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