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Why is the Royal Road progression (IV-V-iii-vi) often resolved by a ii-V-I cadence?
I don't think this is specific to the Royal Road progression, but if you look at the final chords after the IV–V motion, you realize this is just a big circle of fifths progression: iii–vi–ii–V–I.
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Why is the Royal Road progression (IV-V-iii-vi) often resolved by a ii-V-I cadence?
IV V iii vi and ii V I give you all the diatonic triads excluding the dissonant diminished triad viio.
IV V iii vi does not effect a cadence, it sort of works as a deceptive progression, but I think ...
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Why is the Royal Road progression (IV-V-iii-vi) often resolved by a ii-V-I cadence?
The simplest explanation is the most likely:
Because The Royal Road progression ends on vi, and the ii-V-I cadence is among the most common ways in any kind of music (not just Anime) to get from vi to ...
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Random Chord Progression Based on Circle of Fifths
The wording of your question could be clearer, but I think I understand it.
Given these diatonic chord: I IV V vi...
If you always start with I...
Can the following chords be IV V vi in any order...
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Random Chord Progression Based on Circle of Fifths
My answer comes from a slightly different vantage point, but: this absolutely happens, and it's one of the hallmarks of French impressionism (especially Debussy).
We call this pandiatonicism (...
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Random Chord Progression Based on Circle of Fifths
Surprisingly many chords will "work" in many situations, depending on your definition of what it means to "work". If the audience expects a certain chord progression and will not ...
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Random Chord Progression Based on Circle of Fifths
It will fail most of the time, which is why composers exist — to find ways to make otherwise random sounds "work". It's also why music theorists exist — to understand what allows some ...
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how to replace the diminished chord in a key to write a good song without a diminished chord (for example e diminished to F)?
Diminished chords can have many functions, so there is no universal way to exchange them with something else.
However, one very common use, which seems to be your case, is when a diminished chord ...
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Chord III is rarely used, but Pachelbel's Canon in D has F#m
Chord III is rarely used. But, does the well-known Canon in D use chord III as the progression is D → A → Bm → F#m → G → D → G → A?
Well, yes, but only for part of the piece. For much of the piece, ...
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how to replace the diminished chord in a key to write a good song without a diminished chord (for example e diminished to F)?
I guess you're thinking about the chord based on ^7 of the key of F - Edim.
There are other chords which could well come into play to include that E note. Am, C, C7, F▵, A7, F♯7 would all contain said ...
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how to replace the diminished chord in a key to write a good song without a diminished chord (for example e diminished to F)?
If you mean "use E" as a pitch as opposed to a chord, you can always harmonize that E (scale-degree 7) with a V chord, which in the key of F would be a C-major (or a C7) chord. This is very ...
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Harmonic functions of these chords
The Adim chord is known as a "common-tone" chord. Common-tone diminished chords are often used to extend a tonic chord.1 In this case, it's acting to delay the tonic chord or smooth the ...
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Harmonic functions of these chords
Based on the reference you provided in comments your version of the chords in the key of A minor is incorrect and also leaves out the all important bass notes/inversions:
G#o7/B Am/C A7/C# Bb/D D#o7 ...
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What kind of chord progressions am I using?
You seem to be using a technique called 'planing' which exploits the fact that any set of chords of the same shape fit well together, particularly when they move by step.
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Chord III is rarely used, but Pachelbel's Canon in D has F#m
Yes, there is a iii chord in that Pachelbel's Canon progression.
It is a harmonic sequence called "falling thirds". It takes the two chord pattern I V and then sequences it by diatonically ...
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Chord III is rarely used, but Pachelbel's Canon in D has F#m
Yes, it does. This sequence is one of the places where the III chord appears. Another place one might expect it is in consecutive first inversion chords.
For another example (but a debated one), see ...
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What is the internal harmony of this Liszt melody?
TL;DR
The internal harmony of the phrase is viio --> i ; iio --> i.
Analysis
Note: All page references are in Walter Piston, Harmony, Fifth edition, rev. Mark DeVoto (W. W. Norton & Co., ...
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A-Minor songs Reharmonization Using circle of fifths
Yes, that works. And funnily enough, all the chords mentioned are from the same key - same 'family'. I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi. in key C, for example, I, IV, V, vi are C, F, G, Am, whereas in key Am (the ...
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modulating by a tritone
I actually just composed a piece that modulated a tritone up! My methods were... unconventional, but hey, it worked!
So basically, I had this basic chord progression:
| Em | B | C | Adim Fdim |
And I ...
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A-Minor songs Reharmonization Using circle of fifths
Yes, the I, IV, V, and III chords can be used to harmonize most melodies in major or minor. The one modification in minor is that the V chord will typically include a sharped scale degree 7: so, in ...
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Why does the iii chord seem to be usually avoided in many styles?
Although Richard's answer is accepted and correct, since he references the attitude in Kostka/Payne's Tonal Harmony, here's what another popular textbook has to say regarding the relative rarity of ...
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Why does the iii chord seem to be usually avoided in many styles?
Just an addendum to the other answers:
The iii chord is central to the so-called royal road progression, which is used in a great deal of Japanese pop music, especially anime.
The royal road ...
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Why does the iii chord seem to be usually avoided in many styles?
Richard may be correct that Kostka/Payne's Tonal Harmony and probably others say this chord is weird. But is it avoided? Of cours it won't substitute the tonic as homechord and final chord. But it is ...
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Why does the iii chord seem to be usually avoided in many styles?
I'll go a slightly different direction with my answer and say that I think this is a misconception. And frankly, I blame lackluster textbooks for it.
I recall Kostka/Payne's Tonal Harmony in my ...
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Why does the iii chord seem to be usually avoided in many styles?
Maybe because it sounds rather like a weak version of I. In the same way that vii sounds like a weak, rootless V7. But is it avoided THAT much? Let it be your secret weapon!
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