[Smt-talk] I - II - IV

[Eric Knechtges]

I'd be curious as to what you find on this, since it's so common in
popular music.  (David Baerwald's "Come What May", Beatles'
"Yesterday", ABBA's "Dancing Queen" (although that one is arguably a
delayed resolution)... there are literally hundreds of others.)  I've
also wondered whether to properly call this II or a deceptive
resolution of V/V -- I guess it depends on the system.

Kalinnikov's Second Symphony, Movement II, opens with a series of open
fifths that imply a progression that includes this motion.  When this
theme gets expanded in the finale, it becomes I - II7 - iv - I.  I'm
wondering if, in this case and the others, the "II" wouldn't more
properly be viewed as a "chromatic appoggiatura" of sorts to the IV or
iv.

Eric Knechtges, DM
Assistant Professor of Theory/Composition, Northern Kentucky University