Re: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! (02)

Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:08:20 -0400
Newsgroups: rec.music.theory
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In article <GA6Aa.4392$email-address-deleted>, Dr.Matt
<email-address-deleted> wrote:
> One of Silverman's axioms is that there's no such thing as subdominant
> function: the subdominant, in his view, is so far away from the
> "root of central significance" (tonic) that anything may precede it
> and anything may follow it and the fact that it's a fifth below the
> tonic doesn't count for anything. Apply this to the first two-part
> invention by Bach and let me know how you fare.
No subdominant function? Oh dear, well, that appears to remove most
gospel music from Silverman's scope, as much of it relies on the
movement between I and IV.
I suspect that blues isn't under that "subdominant" influence as well,
after all, what happens in that fourth measure, according to what
you've described from Silverman, doesn't exist ...
James King
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