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Encaitare · 02-14-2005, 03:27 PM

Pretty sure, at least on this track, anyway. I played it and came up with no D flats... and then to be sure, I sustained the note on my keyboard (using my toe

) while playing the second half of the track, and came up with only one chord where it would fit.

Either way, the piece seems to center around C. I suppose maybe it could be in f-minor and start and end on the fifth, and then the D-natural in the melody could be explained as that second-to-last chord being a secondary dominant? V6/V?

Or perhaps I'm just going slightly mad, because that seems a little awkward-sounding to me.

EDIT: Just looked up "borrowed chords" in my theory book, and that idea makes a lot more sense to me, since the piece has characteristics of both C major and minor.

02-14-2005, 03:27 PM	#53
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,903	Pretty sure, at least on this track, anyway. I played it and came up with no D flats... and then to be sure, I sustained the note on my keyboard (using my toe ) while playing the second half of the track, and came up with only one chord where it would fit. Either way, the piece seems to center around C. I suppose maybe it could be in f-minor and start and end on the fifth, and then the D-natural in the melody could be explained as that second-to-last chord being a secondary dominant? V6/V? Or perhaps I'm just going slightly mad, because that seems a little awkward-sounding to me. EDIT: Just looked up "borrowed chords" in my theory book, and that idea makes a lot more sense to me, since the piece has characteristics of both C major and minor. Last edited by Encaitare; 02-14-2005 at 09:25 PM.