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Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)

E. Grieg

By Mayank Sanganeria

In C major, this piece is 41 chord changes across 38 bars under the notes on the page — a advanced-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 89 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.

• Color chords 1× bar 11: I+7 (E)
• Chord inversions 11× bar 7: vi7 (C) (first inversion, bass C3) · bar 11: I+7 (E) (first inversion, bass E3) · bar 23: vi7 (C) (first inversion, bass C3)
• Seventh chords 10× bar 3: vi7 — A-minor seventh chord · bar 7: vi7 (C) — A-minor seventh chord · bar 20: V7 — G-dominant seventh chord
• Pedal points 5× bar 4: C3 held bars 4–7 under I, vi7 (C) · bar 8: E3 held bars 8–15 under III, I+7 (E) · bar 18: G2 held bars 18–20 under V, V7

Free scores

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