a rather random request for all you music theorists out there... (and i know you're out there)
my theory's way rusty, and i can't figure out some of the chords to the song below... any help/suggestion/answers would be appreciated... i'll even bake you some cookies if you help me figure it out :D
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First correction -- your notes are probably fine, I seem to have missed a phrase in my first reading. And I don't remember the tune that well.
Second correction -- not all the songs in Singin' in the Rain are from earlier shows; there were at least two new ones.
Okay, so, the bridge is shifting to the dominant key for a bit, which is why the fourth phrase ("summer, autumn, winter...) voices a II instead of ii. It's really V/V. So I'd probably dump a plain ii under the whole third phrase. But later with the repeat, I'd resolve the ii7 to a V43 (that's a V7 chord with the 2 and 4 on the bottom), right at the end of the phrase ("and spring...").
I'm getting confusing. Something like this:
355_(1^)55_4555____
I----I-----V7
455_(2^)55_3555____
V7---V7----I
(1^)(1#^)(2^)_(1^)(1#^)(2)_(2^)(1)612___
ii-------------ii-----------ii
2_(4#)_6_(1^)_7(2^)_46___
V/V-----------V7/V---V7
355_(1^)55_4555____
I----I-----V7
455_(2^)55_3555____
V7---V7----I
(1^)(1#^)(2^)_(1^)(1#^)(2)_(2^)(1)612___
ii---------------------------------V42
355_(1^)55_(2^)_5_1___
I----I------V-----I
I'm sure someone who has a piano and talent will improve on this...
[This is _really_ the last time I'll repost this. I think it's finally close to what I meant.]
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a) yes, I love that musical too:) dunno why, but the song popped into my head randomly, and I couldn't place it... it's been a while since I've seen the movie... I should rent it again
b) I think you're right about it being from an earlier show, since I remember watching a documentary about most of the songs being earlier Freed/Brown works (funny tidbit that you prolly already know -- Make 'em Laugh was written for the movie.. they wanted a song like Porter's Be A Clown, and Freed wrote a song that was so similar to it, ever Irving Berlin, who was on the set of filming, gave him a weird look or two)
c) I've gotta review that whole V/V thing... don't remember much about it
d) I tried noodling on the keyboard, and what I think I hear in the third phrase is IV ii7 IV ii7 (which is very similar to just plain ii7, since the IV is like ii7 without the root 2) but I don't know if that jives with the underlying theory
e) I had more thoughts, but I gotta run to class now... perhaps more later
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