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For questions about how music works, seeking to identify structures and patterns in music. Used to indicate questions about musical concepts and structures, as opposed to techniques and execution.

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Equivalent chords

I'm just starting to learn music theory and this is one of the (possibly silly) doubts I've come into. Let's say we are in C major and we find this chord F-Ab-B-D. …
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Could a third interval be seen as a step?

In the context of common practice music we study (or at least I studied) that a non-chord tone is said a neighbor tone if it's between two notes with the same pitch and differs from them for a step, t …
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Why has the vi chord no tonic function, i.e. what gives a chord its function?

I can totally say that the vi chord could not work as a tonic, feeling deceptive and so on and I'm wondering why. Could it be that a chord sounds "tonic" only if it is the tonic, namely C-E-G. So also …
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Strikethrough and Roman numeral analysis in Schoenberg

I've bumped into this very brief analysis in Structural Function of Harmony by Schoenberg and I've found that strikethrough V. Now, the chord is an D diminished seventh chord, leading to the dominant …
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