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Timeline for Minor subdominant in a major key

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Jun 22, 2014 at 1:24 comment added ninemileskid I don't think there is any modulation at all, my analysis is in A major everywhere.
Jun 22, 2014 at 0:55 comment added Gᴇᴏᴍᴇᴛᴇʀ So your saying it just modulates to bm? dm is not the subdominant of bm. only D major is the mediant
Jun 21, 2014 at 18:46 comment added ninemileskid It's certainly a Dm chord. I'm saying if you make the neapolitan substitution instead (Bb instead of Dm), the effect of the passage is further enhanced. Thus I think it's the best interpretation of why the Dm is effective in the first place.
Jun 21, 2014 at 17:38 comment added r lo I'm hearing the bass play play an F over the Dm chord then E over the E chord. Therefore the transcription is implying the Dm by the bass line. The other thing you have is if you play F# - F - E on the melody to needs to resolve to A.
Jun 21, 2014 at 0:40 history edited ninemileskid CC BY-SA 3.0
ii was actually II
Jun 20, 2014 at 23:27 history answered ninemileskid CC BY-SA 3.0