{"id":3327,"date":"2013-03-29T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2013-04-03T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T05:17:32","slug":"interesting-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/3327\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often in church services I find music distracting and\/or boring. Part of this is undoubtedly my own problems (which is outside the scope of this blog), but one reason may be that I frequently analyze the music too much.<\/p>\n

Today we were at a service because Matt Brench was speaking\/teaching there. Here’s a hymn we sang:<\/p>\n

\"Hymn<\/a><\/p>\n

The last two chords are very surprising! Normally you expect the standard plagal “amen” cadence of IV I as a little tag (at the end of almost every hymn in the book). This one, harmonized by Bach, does something I’ve never seen before instead. After the standard V I progression in the key of C, we have a harmonic HALF cadence in the relative minor! Yes, that’s Am – E which follows a happy G7 – C. Very odd! I showed this to our resident amazing piano player, Larry Williams. He had never seen it before either!<\/p>\n

Oh, wait! I just thought of something…<\/p>\n

This COULD be a plagal cadence after all… a Picardy third plagal cadence in the key of Em! That would actually make more sense than a half cadence at the end of a song. I think I’m going to go with this for now.<\/p>\n

Maybe you have a different opinion \ud83d\ude42 I think Bach was feeling a little frisky that day, maybe he ate a hot pepper for lunch or something, and just wanted to be a little funky.<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/p>\n

Matt Brench wrote me back today and posted this picture of the *exact* same cadence! It’s not even by Bach!<\/p>\n

\"337\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also thought of something else it could be… a *borrowed* plagal cadence in the key of E (mediant). Borrowed iv chords are pretty common (even today)… so in other words:<\/p>\n

C: V I E: *iv I<\/p>\n

http:\/\/academic.udayton.edu\/PhillipMagnuson\/soundpatterns\/chromaticIII\/chromed.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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