Given how the opening phrases end quite open-endedly, here is what happens after those few phrases.
As you can see, the music moves into they key of F major. It transists into this key via something that seems like a domiinant 7th chord that occurs in the bar before. Or maybe it's the introduction of the B natural in the melody that leads into the key of F major. Thereafter, the music continues in the same manner like the opening bars. The harmony and the melody are the same; only the key has changed. Overall, I feel that the transition to the new key is quite abrupt, as there is no clear-cut cadence of V-I in the new key.
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hi! i think there's something wrong with the image. Its blank!
Yea, I don't know what happened. Don't know how to bring the images back on.
The more I look, the more I don't know how the transition of key takes place from Eb maj to F maj. It's not via a pivot chord or note, now I don't think it's through a dom 7th chord that leads into a new key. It just seems abrupt, but yet there's a seamless quality about it. It could be due to the fast pace of the music that just takes the music from here to there, and you don't feel that there's any thing in between.
The pivoting is a subtle one: first of all, the move from Ab to F is a descending 3rd progression with the surprising replacement of Ab with A in the harmony (more on this next semester); second, the Eb in b. 3 lingers in the mind of the listener and turns out to serve as a pivot note in the second half of the next bar. That's why it sounds both expected yet somehow well-connected.
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