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Re: False key change

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-02-02 16:43

A quick "yahoo" search picked up this:

Musical analysis of “The Song Is You” [written by Jerome Kern]
Original Key C major; false key change to E major during “B”
Form A1 - A2 - B - A3
Tonality Major throughout
Movement “A” is primarily step-wise descending; “B” contains a series of lyrical upward leaps followed by stepwise descents

Comments (assumed background)
The potential monotony of repeated notes in “A” is relieved by embellishing tones and use of both common-tone and leading diminished seventh chords. The melodic contour and harmonic changes in “B” offer an almost spectacular contrast to “A,” with leaping, lyrical intervals and an unusual chord progression. Suddenly shifting from the tonic of C major to E major, it continues in this key for three measures. As the melody note lands on the major seventh, it becomes the common-tone of the following Eb (D#) chord, the V7 of yet another new key, G# minor. It starts going through the cycle of fifths, getting as far as B7. Here the melody note is on the root tone of the “chord of the moment,” which happens to be the initial melody note of “A” (the major seventh over the Cma7 chord). This makes for a smooth transition between two distant keys that, while unusual and exotic, is not jarring to the ear.

This leads me to believe that a "false key change" is only a device to get you 'somewhere else.'

....................Paul Aviles

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