
#8 - What is Prolongation in Music?
Once we recognize the prolongation in a given piece of music, a harmonic progression becomes one unit – therefore, reducing the many notes to fewer meaningful objects that we can then relate to in a simpler manner.

#9 - Unraveling the Skeletal Melodic Line
Schenkerian Analysis posits that there are two main types of melodic lines: a 5-line and a 3-line. The two tasks that are before us today are to determine which one is used in this piece, and examine how this skeletal melodic line is being prolonged.

#10 - Prolongation of the Bass Line
In this blog post, I will discuss the prolongation in the Bass line between measures 1-19 of Bach’s famous Prelude in C Major.