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Minuet in C (Notebook for Wolfgang)

L. Mozart

By Mayank Sanganeria

In C major, this piece is 18 chord changes across 16 bars under the notes on the page — a beginner-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 2 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 8× bar 1: iv (C) (second inversion, bass C3) · bar 6: I (G) (second inversion, bass G2) · bar 10: V (B) (first inversion, bass B2)
• Seventh chords 4× bar 3: ii7 — D-minor seventh chord · bar 5: v — G-incomplete dominant-seventh chord · bar 13: ii — D-incomplete dominant-seventh chord
• Modulation 1× bar 11: bars 11–16: G major (r=0.96)
• Pedal points 2× bar 4: G2 held bars 4–6 under V, v, I (G) · bar 12: D2 held bars 12–14 under II, ii, V (D)

Free scores

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