Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings Reduction and Harmonic Analysis

[@DanielMartinez-ss5co]

That was a great job!!!! It was just what I was looking for. Thx Eden

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Hope to upload more like that in the future. Stay tuned

[@JudgeFredd]

Fantastic

[@KaylaYou-ux9jy]

beautiful. Thank you

[@nuritagami8077]

וואו, ממש מרשים הניתוח! גם יצירה מהממת👏

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Link for Purachasing the notes of the Score Analysis: www.musicnotes.com/marketplace/sheetmusic/MK0089742#ProductBlurb

[@TheyBenefit]

What's a V(#3)? Oh I see. It's the secondary dominant of the sharped third note? But isn't it just a standard V chord?

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Good question my friend. I decided to call the F chord V(#3) because of raisen 3rd that happens in harmonic/melodic minor. There was also a natural minor V which in this case was many times an Fm. That's because many times he also goes to the relative major of Bbm which is Db. It's also probably the most remembered chord in the piece so I wanted to emphasize it's importance. Thats why I started the video with my own analysis index, because I sought of "invented" my own kind of harmonic analysis which combines the way that it's being used in classical analysis and jazz harmony analysis. Thanks for watching

[@MusicforInternational]

thanks

[@leomac1829]

hello man amazing analysis do you have the pdf file to post? regards

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

@@leomac1829 hi man my friend. Aa we speak I am working on video of a breakdown of the piece.when I'll finish I add a link to the pdf file in comments here and on the comments too. Thanks and stay tune

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

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[@CedarArchive]

Excellent analysis. Though the Ebm being written both as IVm and VIm threw me off a few times, I'm assuming the latter was just a typo. Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken, and thanks for sharing!

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Thanks for reading it. Probably a mistake, unless it's a different degree of a different key than Bbm. I don't think so because there's only one modulation here and it's to Ebm itself and it's can't be VI in that case. Can you tell where did you find that mistake specifically?(If you have specific minute even) Thanks

[@CedarArchive]

​@@Eden_Rubin_Music Hey thanks for responding - I had a lot of fun reading your analysis. I think the Ebm I was referring to was at 2:15 or so. By the way, that G half-diminished leading to Fm7b5/Ab was really interesting at 3:40! I was leaning toward calling it an Eb or G dominant with tensions but I agree that it's probably more of a passing chord with G leading nicely to Ab, and Gb moving melodically to Cb. I love the hollow sound of it with the double-stacked minor 7ths. Great work & thanks for putting that all together. Cheers

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

​@@CedarArchive Yeah thanks. BTW I am working now on my next analysis video, this time it's gonna be Tchaikovsky 2 movement of the 5th symphony. Hope you will enjoy that one too.

[@drumming_cat]

Shouldn't minor roman numerals just be lowercase?

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

I don't know, never been taught this way. Anyway I created a page here with explanation of how I write ruman numerals chord degrees for this analysis. It's not the regular way anyway, and it based around Jazz degree analysis and Classical one neither. Kinda created a mix

[@knights8400]

Wow I didn't realize the first violin part had notes in the contrabass range.

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

You probably mean that as a joke. I should have change this to "strings" instead. I literally did the whole thing in 2 days so yeah, there might be some saddle things i would change if I could. Instead of sarcasm you could say thanks like all the rest for the hard work and effort I putted in this analysis and how much people can learn from it.

[@knights8400]

@@Eden_Rubin_Music”putted”

[@Damuvader]

​​@@Eden_Rubin_Musicjeez, it's just a joke. chill out

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

After many years I've found the courage to let out a classical piece I wrote. A concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C minor. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6KsYqmmoNWCkNU

[@connort4712]

I think there are a lot more secondary dominants in this. When does anyone ever use a flat major 6 chord? Either that or barber changes keys a lot more often. Than the one you changed to Ebm.

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

The reason I called the Gb major a b6 is that compare to a major scale, the 6th and 7th degrees in natural minor scale are like a b6 and b7 degrees. The b7 in natural minor is what we see as the 5th degree in the relative major scale which is the 3rd degree of a natural minor scale(and I did mentioned it when it happened). That's how I learned harmonic analysis, and I combined 2 different approaches, one from the jazz chord analysis, and the second from the more traditional classical one. Anyway I wrote the chord symbols, so you can interpret it in any way you want.

[@anthonywritesfantasy]

Honestly, slashes are such a pain. The fact that they mean 2 things invites so much confusion. Great analysis though! This piece is so lush.

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Thanks for the comment and I am happy you liked the analysis. But to my opinion the slash thing is crucial actually. That's the only way to explain inversions and upper-structures within the harmony.

[@anthonywritesfantasy]

@@Eden_Rubin_Music This is what I'm saying - which slash thing? There are two ways to use a slash.

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Can you explain exactly what slashes you're exactly talking about?

[@anthonywritesfantasy]

@@Eden_Rubin_Music Of course. At the beginning of the video, in your analysis notes, you say there are two ways you use the slash: for chords with a certain note in the bass (mostly inversions in this case), but in the roman numerals it's also shorthand for "of." "IV of bIII" being written "IV/bIII" for example.

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

​@anthonywritesfantasy Ok i got what you mean now. But as you can see there's a difference between the chordal names(Ebm7 and ect.) to the roman analysis. Because the roman analysis is the degrees of the chords while the letters are the chords names, so it's not having the same meaning. for example : V/IV is a secondary dominant while Bbm/Db is the 1st inversion of the I tonic chord.