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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

Marc Garcia-Vitoria

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional

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Tradition and Modernity in the Harmony of Corale, interludio e aria by Eugeniusz Knapik

Piotr Jędrzejczyk

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional

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Features of Sonata Form: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3, 1st Movement

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Etude Op. 10, No. 1 by Fryderyk Chopin: An Explanation Based on Its Harmonic-Rhythmic Reduction

Miguel Girones Cervera

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master, PhD and professional

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Seven Examples of Periodic Structure Analysis

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of 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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master

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Fryderyk Chopin’s Mazurkas: Periodic Structure and Terminological Issues

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master

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Principles of Sonata Form Analysis: the Case of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 1, 1st Movement

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Sun by R. Murray Schafer: Musical Evocations of a Non-Musical Object

Franciszek Rusek

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Intermediate

Study cycle: Master

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Musical Illustrations of Nature in Marek Czerniewicz’s Haiku for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra

Franciszek Rusek

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Intermediate

Study cycle: Master

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Isaac Albéniz’s Evocación: An Analysis for Teaching Purposes

Stefano Procaccioli

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor, Master

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Neoclassical Passacaglia in the Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lustosławski

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Rondo form: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op. 13, 3rd Movement

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Max Reger on Mozart in Variation Form

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Violin Virtuosity in a Variation Form: Nicolò Paganini, Caprice Op. 1, No. 24

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Principles of Variation Form Analysis: Melodic Variations with a Constant Harmonic Plan

Marek Podhajski

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner

Study cycle: Bachelor

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Rhetorical Strategies in Renaissance Sacred Polyphony: Three Examples for the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Andreo Francisco José Gázquez

Source(s), Object(s) and Method(s) of Analysis

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 Level

Level of music analysis knowledge: Beginner, Intermediate

Study cycle: Bachelor

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