Ashita Hareru Kana

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

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

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. :)

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