Harmonic Analysis: Lieder ohne Worte (Op. 67 No. 2) - F.B. Mendelssohn

In this music theory video we take a closer look at Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte opus 67 no 2. The chords between brackets are secondary dominants.
The audio in this video is a recording by Takashi Sato, it is licensed under creative commons.
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Excellent.Thank you.

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Hi! I'm sorry, but can I disagree with you? I am analyzing this beautiful composition and I have a different opinion on what happens aproximately at 01:07 (bar 16). I don't think that there's a tonicization towards D maj, for many reasons. First of all i hear the A maj chord as a I. Then, 3 flourished Es before the large leap on C# are in a dominant area and prepare the tonic. At last, there's a progression because the same harmony relations are heard in the B minor tonicization as well, few bars later. (you analyzed correctly there)
The progression takes the bars'-half 16 to half 20- material in A major and transposes it on B minor -half 20 to half 24-.
Sorry for bad English

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Ofcourse you can disagree hehe :), everyone must do analysis for themselves to think critically about music & harmony. I'm glad you did. It will not always be the case that two analysis approaches will give the same result, but atleast the central ideas should be more or less the same.
It is indeed a very beautiful work, also check his Lieder ohne Worte opus 62 no. 6 ("Spring song").
Ok, so I think you make a good point. The way these sequences are treated, it would be more logical indeed if bar 16 - 20 would be analyzed in the same way as the B minor section. Actually I kind of did that by saying all the chords lead to A major, but the D major modulation is indeed not in place. Thank you for pointing out!

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Thanks very much

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