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Humoresque No. 7

A. Dvořák

By Mayank Sanganeria

In G major, this piece is 69 chord changes across 64 bars under the notes on the page — a intermediate-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 78 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 4× bar 18: V7/ii (B) · bar 22: V7/ii (B) · bar 58: V7/ii (B)
• Borrowed chords 14× bar 24: bIII (A) · bar 31: bIII (A) · bar 33: bVI
• Chord inversions 40× bar 1: vi7 (G) (first inversion, bass G2) · bar 2: ii7 (C) (first inversion, bass C3) · bar 3: vi7 (G) (first inversion, bass G2)
• Seventh chords 38× bar 1: vi7 (G) — E-minor seventh chord · bar 2: ii7 (C) — A-minor seventh chord · bar 3: vi7 (G) — E-minor seventh chord
• Pedal points 1× bar 15: G3 held bars 15–17 under vi7 (G), I

Free scores

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