Chords at the beginning of each piece

Both pieces are filled with chords, chord variations and chord progressions. Joy to the World begins on the tonic chord in second inversion, though the bass note is a D due to the other notes going in the order of A, then F, then D. The second chord in the first bar is a variation on the tonic chord, with mostly dissonant and incomplete results due to it not being the complete tonic chord, as the composer uses variations and lastly the third chord of that first bar is the subdominant seventh chord in first inversion. The first chord of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is likewise a tonic chord; this chord however is in first inversion and is not a seventh chord. The other chord in the first measure is the supertonic chord in first inversion. The second measure of Tchaikovsky’s piece has two different variations on the subdominant chord, with incomplete chords as the top note of each chord being a note that creates dissonance. Measures 3 and 4 are repeats measures 1 and 2. Watts in his second measure returns to much more simplistic, par to the course, chords, with the first one being a tonic seventh chord in root position and then progressing to a supertonic seventh chord in first inversion, there is no dissonance or out of place notes in this measure. The third measure of Watts’ piece includes both a tonic chord in second inversion and a leading tone seventh chord in second inversion. The fourth measure follows with variations on the tonic chord.