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Air Napolitain "Santa Lucia"

C. Czerny

By Mayank Sanganeria

In G major, this piece is 25 chord changes across 25 bars under the notes on the page — a beginner-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 26 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 1× bar 5: V7/ii (G#)
• Chord inversions 15× bar 2: V7 (A) (second inversion, bass A3) · bar 3: V7 (F#) (first inversion, bass F#3) · bar 4: vi7 (G) (first inversion, bass G3)
• Seventh chords 14× bar 2: V7 (A) — D-dominant seventh chord · bar 3: V7 (F#) — D-dominant seventh chord · bar 4: vi7 (G) — E-minor seventh chord
• Pedal points 2× bar 12: D3 held bars 12–15 under I (D), V7 · bar 20: D3 held bars 20–22 under vi7 (D), I (D), V7

Free scores

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