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The HarMAnalysis Repository is a unique online collection of analytical case studies (ACS) on specific musical works or subjects related to compositional techniques or musical style elements. The papers are intended for sharing with music analysis professors in their teaching practice, for use by their students, and for contributing to research in the music theory field. A double-blind peer-review procedure ensures critical evaluation, objectivity, and the highest level of each analytical case study published in the HarMAnalysis Repository.
To integrate ACS into the authors’ scholarly output, digital identifiers are applied to the HarMAnalysis Repository (e-ISSN), author (ORCID, if available), and each article (DOI). The collection of ACS is published in open access on the HarMA HUB platform.
The editors particularly encourage the submissions of multimedia-oriented forms of analytical studies: original texts (in English) can include models, diagrams and charts (graphics), dynamic sonograms (computer-assisted analysis), examples from scores (source materials), and musical examples (audio files or/and links to audio or audio-video recordings). The repository presents various research perspectives, methodological preferences and traditions of practicing music theory in Higher Music Education Institutions.
The users of HarMAnalysis Repository – students, teachers and researchers – can find the analyses of their interest by searching according to various criteria (musical work title, method of analysis, etc.).
If you are interested in publishing your analytical study, please read the guidelines for authors, which are available below as a template (via the “Download the instructions” button). We accept texts prepared according to the instructions and sent to the following email address: analysis.harmahub@amuz.gda.pl (it can be done via the “Submit a case study” button).
The call for papers is continuously open to all music analysts: music theorists or musicologists, teachers or non-teachers, but also music theory graduates.
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György Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert: The First Canon
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Kammerkonzert Year of creation: 1969-1970 Composer's name: György Ligeti Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Structural analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional
Read moreTradition and Modernity in the Harmony of Corale, interludio e aria by Eugeniusz Knapik
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Corale, interludio e aria Year of creation: 1978 Composer's name: Eugeniusz Knapik Methods of analysis: Other
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional
Read moreFeatures of Sonata Form: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3, 1st Movement
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 Year of creation: 1794-1795 Composer's name: Ludvig van Beethoven Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreEtude Op. 10, No. 1 by Fryderyk Chopin: An Explanation Based on Its Harmonic-Rhythmic Reduction
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Etude Op. 10 No. 1 Year of creation: 1829 Composer's name: Frederic Chopin Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis, Schenkerian analysis, Structural analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional
Read moreSeven Examples of Periodic Structure Analysis
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Mazurka in A Minor Op. 17 No. 4, Mazurka in A Minor Op. 7 No. 2, Mazurka in B Minor Op. 33 No. 4, Mazurka in B-flat Major Op. 17 No. 1, Mazurka in C-sharp Minor Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C-sharp Minor Op. 41 No. 1, Mazurka in C-sharp Minor Op. 50 No. 3 Year of creation: 1824–1831, 1831–1833, 1835–1837, 1838–1839, 1841–1842 Composer's name: Fryderyk Chopin Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis, Structural analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master
Read moreFryderyk Chopin’s Mazurkas: Periodic Structure and Terminological Issues
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Mazurkas (57) Year of creation: 1825–1849 Composer's name: Fryderyk Chopin Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis, Structural analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master
Read morePrinciples of Sonata Form Analysis: the Case of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 1, 1st Movement
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 Year of creation: 1795 Composer's name: Ludvig van Beethoven Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreSun by R. Murray Schafer: Musical Evocations of a Non-Musical Object
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Sun for mixed choir Year of creation: 1982 Composer's name: Raymond Murray Schafer Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis, Semiotic analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Intermediate
Study cycle: Master
Read moreMusical Illustrations of Nature in Marek Czerniewicz’s Haiku for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Haiku Year of creation: 1998 Composer's name: Marek Czerniewicz Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Intermediate
Study cycle: Master
Read moreIsaac Albéniz’s Evocación: An Analysis for Teaching Purposes
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Evocación Year of creation: 1905–1906 Composer's name: Isaac Albéniz Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis, Other
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor, Master
Read moreNeoclassical Passacaglia in the Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lustosławski
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Concerto for Orchestra Year of creation: 1950-1954 Composer's name: Witold Lutosławski Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreRondo form: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op. 13, 3rd Movement
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata Op. 13 (3rd Movement) Year of creation: 1798 Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreMax Reger on Mozart in Variation Form
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart Year of creation: 1914 Composer's name: Max Reger Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreViolin Virtuosity in a Variation Form: Nicolò Paganini, Caprice Op. 1, No. 24
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Caprice Op. 1 No. 24 Year of creation: 1802–1817 Composer's name: Nicolò Paganini Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read morePrinciples of Variation Form Analysis: Melodic Variations with a Constant Harmonic Plan
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata K. 331 (1st movement) Year of creation: 1783? Composer's name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner
Study cycle: Bachelor
Read moreRhetorical Strategies in Renaissance Sacred Polyphony: Three Examples for the Undergraduate Music Classroom
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Circumdederunt me, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Super flumina Babilonis Year of creation: 16th century Composer's name: Cristóbal de Morales, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria Methods of analysis: Rhetoric analysis, Style analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
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