MUY 212 – Spring 2023 – Wiemann
MidTerm analysis: take-home examples and questions
Bartok – Bagatelles, No. 4
(Bagatelle No. 4 starts about 2:44 into the video)
1. What scale or mode does this piece use? Does the primary scale or mode change at any
time? Does the primary tonal center change at any time? (10 pts.)
2. Write lead-sheet symbols for the chords in the piece – one symbol per chord, and
include extensions where appropriate. (20 pts.)
3. Describe the cadences at the fermatas in the piece – are they more like authentic
cadences, half cadences, plagal cadences, or something else? (10 pts.)
Chopin – Nocturne No. 20 in c# minor, op. posth.
1. Give Roman numeral symbols for bars 1-20 of this piece. Assume that there are either 1
or 2 chords per bar. Decide which notes, if any, are nonchord tones. (20 pts.)
2. There is a passage in bars 21-24 that could be termed either a modulation, or a
tonicization. What is the tonal center of this passage? (10 pts.)
Charlie Parker – Now’s the Time
• Using the chord symbols in this simplified arrangement of the tune, find examples of
different kinds of ii-V or ii-V-I progressions in the primary key and in other keys -mark
them on the music, showing the “tonic” of each progression. (10 pts.)
• Find harmonic progressions in the piece that can be examples of tritone substitution.
Mark them on the music, showing the name of the G that has been replaced. (10 pts.)
• This song is meant to be based on a 12-bar blues pattern. How are the “blues” measures
in the song different from the 12-bar blues pattern described in our textbook? (10 pts.)
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