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Minuet in F, K. 2

W. A. Mozart

By Mayank Sanganeria

In F major, this piece is 24 chord changes across 24 bars under the notes on the page — a beginner-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 23 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 9: viio7/ii · bar 11: V7/ii
• Chord inversions 7× bar 3: I7 (C) (second inversion, bass C3) · bar 6: I (C) (second inversion, bass C3) · bar 8: iii (C) (first inversion, bass C3)
• Seventh chords 12× bar 3: I7 (C) — F-major seventh chord · bar 4: i — F-incomplete major-seventh chord · bar 8: iii (C) — A-incomplete minor-seventh chord

Free scores

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