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Ashita Hareru Kana

2008-02-19T09:25:00.000-08:00

Hi all, welcome to my third music blogging assignment and the song discussed today will be a japanese pop song entitled Ashita Hareru Kana. I managed to get a copy of this score by luck and so i decided to use this song. This song To prevent any copyright issues, instead of putting the video up here, I will provide the link to the video which is attached below, pls check it out! : )

http://youtube.com/watch?v=63bF8fRpbjY

For my analysis, i would like to break this song into a few segments namely,

Introduction Bars 1-4

Verse Bars 5-20

Pre-Chorus Bars 21-29

Chorus Bars 30-52

My analysis of the Verse:

Chord Progression &: I-V6-I- (Tonic Expansion)

Functional Analysis I-ii-V-I- (T-PD-D-T)

I-iii-vi-ii-iv-iii-vi-ii-iv- (See Below)

I-iii-vi-iii-ii-iii6-I- (See Below)

I-iii-II-ii-IV-iii-vi-ii-V-I (T-PD-D-T)

Comments:

The chords identified in yellow above seem to be secondary mixtures and in the part where I did not identify the functional progression, the progression seems rather interesting where it moves from a major tonic to a series of minor chords then back to a major chord again. This produces a minorish quality in this segment of the song which I think the composer waned for the sad effect.

My analysis of the Pre-Chorus:

Chord Progression & : I-IV-V- (T-PD-D-)

Functional Analysis I- vi-ii-V- (T-PD-D-)

I-IV-V- (T-PD-D-)

I-vi-II-vi/ii-V-I (T-PD-D-T)

Comments:

The Pre-Chorus is quite straight forward where the chords generally move from T-PD-D-T. The chord in yellow is again a secondary mixture and there is the use of a tonicized chord to lengthen the PD.

My analysis of the Chorus:

Chord Progression& : I-V6-IV6-V-iii-vi-ii-V- (T-D expansion-PD-D-)

Functional Analysis I-V6-IV6-V-iii-vi-ii-IV/iiib-V/iiib- (T-D expansion-PD-D-)

I-I-I-V6-IV6-V6-iii-vi-ii-V- (T-D expansion-PD-D-)

I-V-IV-V-viio-iii-vi-ii-V- viio/vi - (T- D expansion- PD-D-)

i/vi - iv/vi -I-(T expansion)

i/vi - iv/vi -I ( T expansion)

Comments:

The general pattern of the chorus is T-D expansion-PD-D-T. The D expansion also shows that there is a decending bass line when it occurs. In the fourth phrase, the dominant and the dominant substitute is used to lengthen both the D expansion and the D. The song ends with a tonic expansion using the plagal cadence repeated two times. The second time the plagal cadence repeats, on the score, there is no direct sign to show a tonicization but i choose to see it that way as to conclude the tonic expansion using the plagal cadence.

Thanks for reading and I am awaiting your comments.

Music analysis 2- Just Let Me Say

2007-10-21T09:00:00.000-07:00

For my latest blog analysis(sorry about being late..), we are flying from korea to erm... england? Anyway, the title of this song is "Just Let Me Say", a popular christian song from the band Hillsongs, one that i love very much because of the meaningful deep poignant words. Anyway here is my analysis.

The progression seems to begin with a lament bass where the chord moves from I-V6-vi7-vi43.

This is then followed by the chord progressions IV-ii7-V-V-V6 which completes the T-PD-D--T where the PD is expanded through chord expansions and moving from the vi-IV-II. The D is also expanded with the V-V-V6 dominant expansion.

The next few progressions follow the similar pattern where it starts of with the lament bass introduction of I-V6-vi7-vi43 but this time ii64 comes first followed by IV-V-V7. This is rather unusual as the convention is where the PD goes from chord vi-iv-ii.

I also managed to do some phrasing and i might have wrote on the paper wrongly, now loking at it again i feel bars 3-6 and 4-7 might be a short 4+4, continued by the next long group which could possibly form a sentence.

Passing note in bar 5 where note moves from A-G-F and in bar 8 in the bass where it moves from C-D-E.

Thats all folks. Thanks for reading.

Joel

Music Analysis 1- In Sa

2007-09-07T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hi all this is a korean pop song from one of the movies that i watched and the song is titled "In Sa". Chord progressions are varied but follow the general T-PD-D-T. This piece uses alot of (add2) to the chords for example D(add2) chord where note E is played in the D triad chord. This produces a whimsical effect to the piece. Thanks for reading. Goodbye. :)

1st Post

2007-08-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

Creation of my music blog done, come crescendo with me! Hahaha :)