How to Build Musical Phrases with 3 Harmonic Functions

Want to learn how music theory talks about tonal harmony through three function zones? David Kulma teaches you about tonic, dominant, and subdominant through a musical phrase by Beethoven here on the fifth episode of Music Corner.

In this fifth episode of Music Corner, I explore harmonic function through a phrase by Beethoven.

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Bibliography
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331, was published in 1784 and is in the public domain, as stated on Wikipedia.

2. Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22, was written in 1800, published in 1802, and is in the public domain, as stated on Wikipedia.

3. My tagline is a short quote from Robert Ashley's television opera, Perfect Lives.

5. Thank you to Krista Abrahamson, who emailed me a copy of her recent doctoral dissertation "History, Implementation, and Pedagogical Implications of an Updated System of Functional Analysis." She wrote a useful historical overview of harmonic function and included sections on Quinn's and Smith's separate systems of functional bass. Here own new analytical method, Functional Analysis, is pedagogically oriented and borrows concepts from Riemann-influenced German function labels.

6. Ian Quinn's unpublished "Class Notes for MUSI 210" and unpublished 2005 Society for Music Theory paper "Harmonic Functions without Primary Triads" is a primary source for how I went about the analysis in this video. I thank Kris Shaffer for sharing this with me three years ago.