Bach: 'Air on the G String' Harmonic Analysis

(Orchestral Suite # 3, II. Air)

[johannsebastianbach]

Wow, i am really good at this modulation thing :D

[raefblack]

great, thanks love how he uses the descending bass line

[zecalimazeca]

Great a useful job. Tks for sharing to the world. Tks from Brazil

[josemaazcue]

Always a heavenly pleasure to listen to this magnificent piece. My father played this many times on Organ.
Basque Country has some the best organs in Europe.

[guygauvreau]

Finally with the good chords, thanks to share

[RicardoMarlowFlamenco]

As someone pointed out down below, he’s not modulating or changing keys very often here, it’s just secondary dominants in the key of D major. There is a brief change to b minor in the middle but the rest can be viewed as tonicizing the ii or the V chord generally speaking, briefly the IV chord near the end. I would simplify those e: or A: modulations to iihalfdim/ii-V7/ii-ii in D or ii/V-V/V-V staying in D as they occur.

[LaraUniting]

This is JUST what I was looking for, finally!

[zecalimazeca]

Just discovered this analysis an channel. GREAT, subscribing, commenting, like ... NO WORDS TO SAY TKS. God keep on blessing you

[Elintasokas]

Thanks! I tried my best to analyse this myself, but you filled all the gaps!

[Ricamusica]

I had a dream with this piece this morning, and the first I did when I wake up was to search it in youtube. How happy I felt to see this one. so slowly and full of that spiritual character that I think Bach thougt. Thanks a lot, and I'll try to play the first two or three bars of this musical gem, at least.

[JD_Washington]

i think the frequent chord progressions interfere with the counterpoint but provide modulation

[okt_official]

This video is an amazing thing, I learned a lot. Thank you!

[RenatoBorgesMusica]

This is great!
I'd say the first one in bar 12 is E(half-dim)7, instead of G#. The tritone has a good resolution, then! :)

[composer]

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[Khayyam-vgfw]

Strictly speaking, this is more harmonic labelling than analysis, per se. Nothing wrong with that, of course (and a very thorough job has been done here), but it's only a preliminary to real harmonic analysis.

[renep]

I looked at the first 3 bars. The first chord in bar 3 looks to me a VII in e, not a II. Because the e in the first beat resolves to the d# in the second beat, so it is a suspension. Which makes it very rich. In the score these 2 notes are played by the violas.

[lupash]

Bar 17; that's a bit finer than Em7/B, it actually goes Gadd9/B before hitting that passing Em7/B. Still, on the strong beat it's a Gadd9/B that resolves on a passing Em7/B. I saw a few other similar mistakes here and there.

[poltable]

hello is there somewhere to print it, thank you !!!

[keyllapizon]

meu Deus como eu amo essa música mega expressiva linda de mais

[williamreid]

Would be better w/ a lava lamp in the background.
Still love how we can see the chords though. I’ve always wanted to just outta curiosity