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Old Mar 22 2007, 8:15 PM
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Ok, I don't have time today to go through this in detail, but I will point out some things I noticed straight away.

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Ok, I'm not sure if I read it right, the numbers in the score confused me, I thought they might be the progression but from analyzing where the bass and treble notes acctually ring together I think not, then again I might be wrong.
Those numbers are actually just the fingerings for playing on a keyboard.
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Also I assumed notes with a major 2nd interval were sus2 chords and perfect 4th intervals were inverted fifths, so I might have screwed up there too.
I don't quite know what you mean here, but I'll check again when I have some time.

Your harmonic analysis of the minuet was not too bad, however, you are making some mistakes repeatedly. You have written iii a lot of times (if not all) when it should in fact be I6 or Ib - i.e. the first inversion of the tonic chord. Are you familiar with inversions? I should go over them before we continue, if you're not.
The rest of what you wrote was fairly correct, and of every piece is open to different interpretations.
Anyway, you've made a good start. I want you to be thinking of where the modulations in this Bach minuet fit into the minuet form that we've looked at. I want you to try to get a feel for that.
I will try to continue this tomorrow.
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