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Waltz, Op. 32 No. 1

C. Czerny

By Mayank Sanganeria

In A major, this piece is 16 chord changes across 18 bars under the notes on the page — a beginner-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 9 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.

• Chord inversions 2× bar 3: I7 (C#) (first inversion, bass C#3) · bar 7: I7 (C#) (first inversion, bass C#3)
• Seventh chords 7× bar 3: I7 (C#) — A-major seventh chord · bar 4: V7 — E-dominant seventh chord · bar 7: I7 (C#) — A-major seventh chord

Free scores

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