Melodic upper leading-tone, the subdominant/degree four (E♭) as auxiliary to the mediant/degree three (D) (in C this would be F and E♮). From the opening to Brahms Op. 56.
Melodic upper leading-tone, the subdominant/degree four (E♭) as auxiliary to the mediant/degree three (D) (in C this would be F and E♮). From the opening to Brahms Op. 56.
Chord progression of La Folia theme, a common harmonic pattern in baroque music. After chord notation provided by User:Hyacinth at en:File:Later Folia.png. Self-made with Lilypond
Coming out of the far end of my steve reich obsession, this starts as a pretty simple two violins and piano thing but layers up quite big. I like it quite a lot.