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The note between fa and sol is fi or se, depending on if it's the sharp 4 or flat 5 functionally. Sharp 4 would be most common, since it comes up as the leading
by acjohnson55 2y ago
The note between fa and sol is fi or se, depending on if it's the sharp 4 or flat 5 functionally. Sharp 4 would be most common, since it comes up as the leading tone of the dominant's key, e.g. in an secondary dominant, like V7/V.
But I guess you could get the flat 5 if you did the tritone substitution of the secondary dominant of the IV, which would be bV7.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoI know that fa sharp is fi and so flat is se. The point of my comment was (1) that I was having difficulty labeling the note in question, meaning I couldn't use either name; and (2) that the heuristic "use the enharmonic that doesn't interfere with other nearby notes" doesn't work, because the notes a half-step away in either direction are both in use.
- acjohnson55 2y agoOh sorry, I misread your comment and that you were referring to a specific piece. Are you talking about the vibraphone part in the beginning? If so, I think you did it right. I wouldn't consider those little dips of the top note to be a chord change, but just a neighbor tone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonchord_tone#Neighbor_tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonchord_tone#Neighbor_tone). So I'd treat it melodically and just put it on the adjacent line, with whatever accidental works. Like you did! And then I think you may be talking specifically about measure 11. I'm pretty rusty on my analysis, but it seems like it's the iv7 chord, but starting and ending with a chromatically raised root, which is slick because it acts as a passing tone from the i chord in measure 10 and the V in measure 13. I would probably do Gb -> F -> Gb, because the F is the chord tone, and the Gb is the nonchord ornament. But yeah, probably doesn't really matter!