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It's on my page in my music, second track.
Yes, I would love to listen to it.
Thank you Rodney, it's always great to get intelligent feedback and I definitely make mistakes from time to time. The other way to analyse it (as Chris said) is to think of it as a half-diminished chord in third inversion.
Incidentally I used this device on my track 'Maiden Voyage' where I really tried to emulate that Golden Age love theme sound. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Thanks for the post. I love talking about the theory that makes music awesome. I enjoyed reading about how this device was found in other pieces also and influenced other film composers such as Horner.
Yeah apologies Rodney, you're correct that the chords go from D to Gm(6) however this is the same idea in a different key.
I guess you could look at it as a borrowed minor iv chord however whichever way you use it I think the importance is in the major sixth sound. I appreciate it's not in the accompanying string figuration however it is a very prominent note in the melody and absolutely crucial to that Golden Age sound he achieves. The fact that the minor chord with the major sixth is prominent in all of the love themes I mention above really ties that together.
We might be talking about different pieces, but are we talking about when the horn comes in? If so I thought the piece was in D major, so where is the opening harmony of G to Cm6? It's D to gm/D or we actually call it a I to iv6/4, and the iv is simply a borrowed chord of the minor and the 6/4 is the inversion. Concerning the added 6, I see it as just part of the melody because it is absent in the harmony and completely absent 2 measures later.
Thanks for the awesome post! I always thought of Leia as: I to ii dim with a pedal point of I.
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