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  @PUPSHEAD3 сағат бұрын

  Thank you Sir ! I spent 2 days trying to understand sentences vs periods and only became more confused . (Edit : as I searched all videos on the web I could find .) You cleared it right up in one video . You are good at your job ! All the best in your future life and work my friend ❤️

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  @SethMonahan3 сағат бұрын

  Thanks so much, friend! I'm glad to be able to help.

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  @ajames283Күн бұрын

  JJFux did the same "joke" as Haydn but more subtle. The first movement of his canonic sonata for 2 viola da gambas opens with a phrygian cadence.

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  @SethMonahanКүн бұрын

  Ha-interesting! I wonder if it was a kind of pun on the way that some baroque fast (but not first) movements are preceded by a slow movement that ends not on a PAC but with a phrygian cadence?

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  @curtpiazza1688Күн бұрын

  A whole new world for me to explore! 😊

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  @pecfexfextus4437Күн бұрын

  i'm glad you're still going

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  @SethMonahanКүн бұрын

  Me too! I've currently got three more lessons in the pipeline, going live around mid-August.

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  @curtpiazza16882 күн бұрын

  WOW! Great STUFF! 😊

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  @curtpiazza16884 күн бұрын

  Thanx! 😊

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  @curtpiazza16885 күн бұрын

  A lot to absorb...but I'm staying with it! 😅

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  @SethMonahan5 күн бұрын

  I'm impressed by your persistence-it's a LOT to be taking in so quickly!

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  @curtpiazza16885 күн бұрын

  @@SethMonahan THANX! 😃

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  @rainbow-saturn-377 күн бұрын

  5:40 cat alert quiescenza :)

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  @rainbow-saturn-377 күн бұрын

  And I also like the way you teach in such a funny way. Thanks Seth!

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  @rainbow-saturn-378 күн бұрын

  Hey - if you have a cat don't watch this video; or else it will kill you.

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  @curtpiazza16888 күн бұрын

  😂Love the graphical illustrations ! Love the kitty cat! 🐱 ❤

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  @Mazurking8 күн бұрын

  Chopin loves this one too. A major polonaise a couple of bars in, Nocturne Op. 32 no. 2, slow movement of sonata no. 1 and the list goes on.

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  @SethMonahan8 күн бұрын

  Thanks for the recommendations! After making one of these videos, I often have to go scrounging for additional examples to use in class, since I always put my favorites in the video itself. I've gotten some fantastic supplementary examples from viewers in the comments section! (Currently, my in-class pool for CTo7s only has one Chopin example, the C#m Mazurka from op. 41.)

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  @hippotropikas537411 күн бұрын

  Thank you for making these videos! Just to add a little something about the progression IV6 - I64 - IV - I6 : it seems to me that this progression is also used in reverse, although rarely. So we can have: I6 - IV - I64 - IV6. I don't have any example in mind though :)

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  @SethMonahan10 күн бұрын

  Glad you like the videos! And you're 100% correct that the reverse of IV6-I6/4-IV-I6 happens pretty regularly. I talk about this progression in Lesson 37, on the "Passing Tonic Six-Four." I've separated the two because, in my hearing, the I6/4 has a different character in each. In the contrapuntal idiom I discuss here, the I6/4 sounds (again, to me!) like a real tonic chord, a point of relative stability, despite being in an "unstable" inversion. But in other cases, explored in Video 37, the tonic 6/4 serves more of a connecting role, one that doesn't really disrupt the function of the surrounding chords. (In fact, there are instances of the IV6-I6/4-IV-I6 progression where the same could be said-i.e., that the tonic is "just" a connecting chord. Rhythm, of course, plays a huge part in how one hears a series of chords!)

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  @curtpiazza168812 күн бұрын

  😊

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  @vpdemantova13 күн бұрын

  I love that the slides are not full blank and have the brown background edge.. Staring at your own hand, or dancing with the threes, feeling and understanding more and more what the expression of a dog that live on the streets means, all his suffering, presence, joy; admiring the creation and living together with nature's time, are such things that are rare and precious where and with who I live and see and walk and dream.. Thank you so much for these amazing classes Seth! Lovely, wonderful, thank you thank you!

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  @curtpiazza168813 күн бұрын

  I don't quite understand everything just yet....but I'm sure learning a lot! 😊

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  @curtpiazza168814 күн бұрын

  Great look back into music history! 😊

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  @GabrielPerboni14 күн бұрын

  old musician here, learning theory after more than 20 years of "playing blind"... Loving the way you deliver the information, a lot of content well packed and structured. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and congratulations for being an extraordinary teacher

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  @curtpiazza168815 күн бұрын

  Wow! Lots of material to learn! 😅

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  @curtpiazza168818 күн бұрын

  I'm slowly catching on!

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  @curtpiazza168819 күн бұрын

  😊

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  @curtpiazza168820 күн бұрын

  All this is so new and exciting for me ! 😂

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  @curtpiazza168821 күн бұрын

  WOW!! Great lesson! I'm learning a lot! 😊

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  @espressonoob22 күн бұрын

  It's extremely upsetting this was explained much better from a 20 minute KZread video rather than my half a grand music theory course in college. Thank you very much for the resources!

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  @curtpiazza168822 күн бұрын

  GREAT! ❤ 😊

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  @curtpiazza168823 күн бұрын

  Love the connections to modern music! 😊

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  @davids826224 күн бұрын

  in 12:41 isn't it supposed to in Eb major ?

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  @SethMonahan24 күн бұрын

  The music you're seeing there is from an inner movement of a multi-movement work. That movement is indeed in Eb major. But the *title* of the piece is based on the key of the first movement-hence, "Piano Trio in C minor."

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  @davids826223 күн бұрын

  @@SethMonahan thanks a lot!

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  @curtpiazza168828 күн бұрын

  Great lesson! Love the musical examples to illustrate the concepts! ❤ 😂

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  @curtpiazza168829 күн бұрын

  Wow! This is really amazing stuff! Love the color coding....makes it so easy on the eyes! 😊 ❤ Thanx!

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  WOW! This is great stuff! Thanx! 😊

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  Thanx so much! 😊

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Glad you're enjoying the series! Things take a pretty serious turn around Video 16-that's the point where the "basics" in the series title becomes a bit misleading. I use Lesson 16 and onwards as the backbone of grad courses I teach at Yale, so they're really more "intermediate." But still, if you watch them in order and work through them carefully, I think there's a ton to be learned. These are the kinds of resources that I wish had existed when I was teaching myself all this stuff 20 years ago!

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  I'm a little lost! 😮 I gotta go over this one again!

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  😊😊😊

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  @ShombitKumarPodderАй бұрын

  If I request you to make a video on Beethoven's 32 variations on piano, would you please listen ?🙏

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  Great! Thanx! ❤ 😊

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  @curtpiazza1688Ай бұрын

  WOW! Great STUFF! I'm learning a lot! ❤ 😊

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  @indradhanush5444Ай бұрын

  Sir ..is it possible you teach me online..I want to learn composition ..iam from India ..thankyou sir

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  @fyhaskamdigАй бұрын

  Really good video!

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  @jaseynАй бұрын

  33:30 - I think, b2 & #7 its a another augmented sixth chord not a seventh chord.

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  @jaseynАй бұрын

  Is Moonlight Sonata using Neapolitan?

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  @TabletsculptingtipsАй бұрын

  These videos are some of the best on any subject on the whole of youtube

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  @robhaskinsАй бұрын

  This is amazing, Prof. Monahan. Thanks for all this fine work.

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  @yuxinyang4196Ай бұрын

  I had some problem accessing the big18 html website. I recently wrote a project on big18 chords with javascript and hosted it at yang-yuxin.github.io/easychord/ The project will be updated on mobile compatibility and harmonic functions (tonic, predominant, dominant) in the future. Hope it is helpful!

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  @TabletsculptingtipsАй бұрын

  I stumbled across your channel after googling "lament bass harmonisation" and I'm incredibly glad I did. These are videos of remarkable quality; thanks so much for making them. I'm working my way through them all. I realise that you specialize in classical period theory; but I would love a video comparing and contrasting baroque and classical treatments of harmony and phrase structure; a big topic, but it would be great. Anyway, once again, thanks for such brilliant material!

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  @peterbrazier4370Ай бұрын

  B Minor 6 over 3 shouldn’t this be D F sharp and G not A as shown ??? At 7 .48 minutes…???

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Seems like you're a bit turned around. The KEY is B minor, not the chord. In the key of B minor, the III chord is D major. (***IF we were talking about a B-minor triad in 6/3 position, we'd have B-D-F# with D in the bass, of course.***)

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  @peterbrazier4370Ай бұрын

  Thanks for the super swift response i have some thinking to do !! Love the videos am learning a lot 👍👍

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Glad to help! This can all be a lot to keep track of when you're finding your footing. I made Lesson 9 specifically to try to clarify all of the dizzying uses of numbers in harmonic theory. You should check it out if you're curious!

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  @peterbrazier4370Ай бұрын

  I am v curious I write for a string quintet here in the west of Ireland and am trying to get into the classical style it’s away from my background in swing jazz.. I end up tying myself in knots and your vid on periods and sentences was very useful so big thanks I’m working my way through all of your stuff , am retired so I have the time Thanks again P

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  As I've said many times, I try to make videos that would've been helpful to ME when I was young and teaching myself all this crazy business. If they're useful to you, I'm happy!

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  @NITAY751Ай бұрын

  at the beethoven example in minute 19:00 I hear it as a I ii42 V64--53. Great video, as always!

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Thanks for the kind words! (As for 19:00: you're of course free to hear Beethoven op. 2/1 however you like. But you should know that that interpretation puts an unresolved chordal seventh in the bass of the ii4/2, which is an actual contrapuntal mistake that Beethoven probably wouldn't make. ii4/2 really only has one proper resolution in this style, which is V6/5. [Think for instance of the opening of the first prelude in the Well-Tempered Clavier: I-ii4/2-V6/5-I.])

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  @EvaSlashАй бұрын

  6:55 for the minor key you said chords built on scale degree 6 and 7 are in only one inversion. But in your chart the VI chord is only showing as root position with no inversion. Is that a typo?

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Nope. It's an unfortunate feature of the terminology. People use "inversions" both to mean "instances of chords whose root is not in the bass" but also "all possible permutations of a chord, including root-position." It does result in the admittedly silly proposition that the one "inversion" of vi that gets used is root-position!

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  @EvaSlashАй бұрын

  Does the big 18 apply to a lot of chopins works particularly his nocturnes? Or is he doing all sorts of crazy stuff beyond the scope of the big 18

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  Good question-but I'd recommend thinking about it slightly differently. Nobody composes using JUST the chords from the Big 18. There are always other harmonies in play, many of which I talk about in later videos. The Big 18 are just the chords that are common to most pieces in the style. In other words, there's a good chance you'll find most or all of them in any European work of the 18th/19th century (including Chopin's nocturnes). That being said, simpler music will tend to have a higher concentration of them, while more complex music will use them less often, to make way for other kinds of harmonies. Chopin's music, in general, is pretty complex by that metric. So knowing only the Big 18 wouldn't get you very far in an analysis.

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  @EvaSlashАй бұрын

  @@SethMonahan can you point me to any good resources to help understand contextual analysis of chopins nocturnes?

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  @EvaSlashАй бұрын

  7:03 Is there any particular reason why the chord built on the supertonic scale degree of the natural aeolian scale (the 2nd inversion ii chord) is not functioning as a predominant? Or can it, but just not as strong or commonly used that way? Same concern I have for that other column you mentioned in the 4 chord column

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  I'm not quite sure I understand how the question pertains to this video specifically, since I don't bring up harmonic function until Lesson 17. But since you asked (!): the second-inversion ii chord really isn't used very often at all-in major or minor. In minor, its bass note (^6) would likely step down to the dominant. But composers vastly prefer iv6 in that role, or possibly iiø4/3 (both of which also have ^6 in the bass). This may relate to historical strictures about six-four chords being much more restricted in their use than other kinds of triads.

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  @peterbrazier4370Ай бұрын

  Good lesson . What is a PAC?

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  @SethMonahanАй бұрын

  PAC is the abbreviation for "perfect authentic cadence"; see Video 11, I think?

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  @peterbrazier4370Ай бұрын

  First class 👍👍

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  @juwonnnnnАй бұрын

  👏