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Three Blind Mice (Part I) A long standing joke about Schenkerian analysis is that it reduces every piece of music to "Three Blind Mice" and this nursery rhyme provides a beautifully simple example of how the fundamental structure works as an analytical tool. A suggested working method is properly discussed in How to do a Schenkerian Analysis but the example below shows the initial stage - labelling diminutions: any consecutively repeated bars are ignored - e.g. bars 2 and 4 foreground diminutions are marked - e.g.: the descending third that prolongs I (C) in bar one the neighbour note that prolongs V (G) on the second beat of bar five this analysis also shows a further layer of diminutions in bar five - the neighbour note on the second beat and the consonant skip on the fourth decorate a neighbour note prolongation of I that spans the whole bar Have a look for these features in the above example and then click on it to see the answer and more explanations. 39534-PMLP27541-Rachmaninoff-Op11-6MorceauxFor4h-SovietEd.
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