MUS 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Predominant Chord
5 Dec 2018
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Western music has its own syntax, the orderly directional flow of a musical phrase is determined by the harmonic function of its chords, there are three main categories of harmonic function: tonic (t), dominant (d), and. Predominant (pd): as its label indicates, the tonic chord (i) has a tonic function, v and vii are dominant function chords, the most common predominant chords are ii and iv. I as a kind of false tonic. : here vi functions as a tonic substitute, labeled with a t within square brackets, [t], similarly, iii can be used deceptively (albeit rarely) as a dominant substitute, or.
