Timeline for Understanding bVII harmony
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| Mar 11, 2020 at 18:51 | comment | added | Laurence | Oh, anything can be justified as 'borrowed' from SOMEWHERE. I'm not sure that sort of labelling helps very much. | |
| Mar 11, 2020 at 7:17 | comment | added | Albrecht Hügli | as it has already been discussed in the earlier question bVII is a borrowed chord of the mixolydian mode. Functional it works to me like a suspension of V7 ... | |
| Mar 10, 2020 at 12:19 | history | edited | Laurence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 9, 2020 at 13:59 | comment | added | Laurence | It has a function in the backwards direction, as the culmination of the 'cycle of 5ths' string. Going forwards - well it certainly precedes the dominant! But it could just as well have gone other places. I don't see a strong function there. | |
| Mar 9, 2020 at 13:57 | vote | accept | glenviewjeff | ||
| Mar 9, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | trlkly | I don't disagree that it is basically diatonic, but that still means it has to have a function, and I would say it has predominant function, same as ii or IV. | |
| Mar 9, 2020 at 1:18 | history | answered | Laurence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |