Nocturne No. 19 in E-Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (Analysis) – Friederich Chopin
A complete analysis of Nocturne No. 19, looking at form, structure, harmony and melody.
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Analysis
This category contains articles that analyse musical works, discussing what they can teach us as composers, orchestrators and arrangers.
Gilderoy Lockhart – John Williams (Impromptu Melodic Analysis)
An impromptu analysis of the comedic melodies John Williams created to underscore the devious, Gilderoy Lockhart, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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The Lark Ascending (Music Composition Analysis) – Ralph Vaughan Williams (Article 1 – Lessons in Harmony)
An analysis that looks at modality (modulation & interchange), pedal points and chord voicing in RVW’s The Lark Ascending.
Arabesque No. 1 – Claude Debussy (Music Composition Analysis)
An analysis of Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1, looking at structure, melody and harmonic language.
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Spiegel im Spiegel – Arvo Pärt
Unpicking the serenity of Pärt’s Spiegel I’m Spiegel: Tintinnabuli technique is recapped along with the identification of other creative constraints.
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Salut D’amour – Edward Elgar (Music Composition Technique Analysis)
An analysis of Elgar’s Romance for Violin and Piano: Salut D’amour. Harmony, melody and structure go under the microscope.
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Fawkes the Phoenix – John Williams (Music Composition Analysis – Arrangement, melody and melodic development)
How does John Williams create such compelling melodies? Let’s find out.
Nocturne from Scénes de la Fôret – Mélanie Bonis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYl4GcKe5Y&ab_channel=AnyOldMusic Today, I thought we’d take a look at a piece that captured my eye, because it was recently uploaded by Cmaj7 as a score video, to YouTube, and score, to IMSLP. The piece is the opening Nocturne movement from Scènes de la Fôret (Forest Scenes) by French composer, Mélanie Bonis. A composer with a
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Troika from Lieutenant Kijé (suite) (1934) – Sergei Prokofiev
Late in 1932, Sergei Prokofiev was approached by the Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) based film studio Belgoskino Studios and commissioned to score their upcoming film Lieutenant Kijé. To be produced and released in 1933, it came at a time where Prokofiev, who lived in Paris and had been away from his native country for nearly a
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J. S. Bach – Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B-minor) (Bitesize Composition Analysis)
A nifty way in which Bach modulates, particularly from a minor to a major mode, is by simply pivoting around the tonic of the previous minor key. In the final movement “Badinerie”, of his Orchestral Suite No. 3, for instance, he will often give the tonic chord a cape, turning it into a super-tonic chord