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Diminution (Part II) Here is the same tune with the various linear units slurred and labelled. Notice how each linear unit prolongs a corresponding harmonic unit. If you pick one note from each diminution you will find the outline of a well-known tune. (if you can't work it out, click here)  As you will find out in How to do a Schenkerian Analysis, the next stage of an analysis is to decide which note from each linear unit is the one being prolonged. You may ask "Why bother?", but this is in fact where Schenkerian analysis starts to become really interesting. |
