Rachmaninoff: Prelude
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 Rachmaninov, Prelude in Db Major, Op 32 no 13 -- Harmonic analysis
June 29, 2007, 02:49:22 PM by Mayla
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I am having trouble knowing how to think in analyzing this. The opening section in Db Major was pretty much fine -- but, once we get to the A Major section and beyond (even when returning to Db Major) I am having lots of doubts and I am feeling pretty stuck in my progress now with this.
Specifically, I am trying to do a "Harmonic Reduction" (meaning, I am just trying to break the work down into what is harmonically represented in each beat/part of beat/measure -- and I am entering this into finale notepad and making a special score just for this) for this work (as with all of the works I am currently studying) and I am not sure how to make sense out of it. What I am finding is that there are *so* many chords that could be 9ths, 11ths, 13ths ... that I feel like I am either conceptualizing it wrongly, or, perhaps I ought to split the chords up between the hands and think of them as juxtaposed with each other (however, that doesn't always work). Maybe a number of the notes should be considered as "passing notes" or "neighbor notes" instead of part of the chords... 
The specific section I am working on is the "piu vivo" section which in my edition (schirmer) is page no 3. There is a copy of this score here on PS, too.
Any help is greatly appreciated  .
Thanks,
Mayla
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