Mendelssohn Violin Concerto - Some More Annotations (2)

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Worth mentioning the sustained chord outlining the harmony?Bar 11-12 EminorBar 13 - A minorBar 14 - E minor

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Leading note at this point? Doesn't resolve to the tonic.Also have you talked about the descending pattern or minor 3rd and perfect 4ths which is a feature of the violin melody?

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1st inversion Am

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2nd inversion E7

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Am

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F7

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Chords in different inversions create descending bass line.

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B7 1st inversion creates a perfect cadence to go back to the tonic key at bar 25.

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Sequence (21-24)

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Sequence and sort of a mini cadenza.

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Outline the Em chord V of Am in preparation of the Am key at 28

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Same idea as 26-28 as a sequence in the

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Outlines the f7 chord (sort of when it gets to SF chord, creating a perfect cadence to the B chord (bar at the start of the next page).

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The three bar quasi cadenza figure from above is now extended to 8 bars as an ascending sequence and heard over a (nearly but not quite chromatic) ascending figure in all the instruments wit

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Leading note resolves to tonic before the phrase descends (do they need to know each chord?) to end on a diminished chord at bar 40.

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Ascending diminished arpeggio - double stopping, leading to the high B and descending a semitone to another diminished chord 44 (false climax) Followed by the same diminished idea in octaves.

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This time the V7 chord creates the perfect cadence to go back into the tonic key.

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Call and response with the idea based on the second phrase of the 1st subject.

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Sequence of V-I notes ascending

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Diminished chord

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Diminished

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Accented passing notes.

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Tutti upper woodwind and strings against the bassoon and cello. This then swaps over 66-69 where the basson and cello play what the strings were playing and upper stings play what the cello and basson was playing while the upper woodwind hold the pedal (dominant pedal at this point?)

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Another rising sequence with acciaccaturas

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quaver fiqure continues in the woodwind (do they know that's what the line through the note means?).

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Mendelssohn Violin Concerto - Some More Annotations (2)