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Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1

M. Clementi

By Mayank Sanganeria

In C major, this piece is 38 chord changes across 38 bars under the notes on the page — a intermediate-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 75 of 97 in the library, ranked easiest to hardest. Reduced to block chords, that's a progression you can learn in a sitting; the piece you're reading is that progression wearing figuration.

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What's inside the harmony

Reducing the piece to block chords and labeling every change turns up harmonic phenomena that are easy to miss reading the figuration straight — each one below is also its own corpus-wide census.

• Secondary dominants 2× bar 7: V7/V · bar 13: viiø7/V (C)
• Chord inversions 17× bar 8: vi7 (G) (third inversion, bass G2) · bar 9: II (F#) (first inversion, bass F#3) · bar 10: I7 (G) (second inversion, bass G3)
• Seventh chords 15× bar 4: V7 — G-dominant seventh chord · bar 7: V7/V — D-dominant seventh chord · bar 8: vi7 (G) — A-minor seventh chord
• Pedal points 1× bar 19: G3 held bars 19–21 under V, v, i (G)

Free scores

• Blocked-chord reduction (MusicXML) — the harmony skeleton the player performs
• The piece as written (compressed MusicXML)