[Smt-talk] I-II-IV as a progression

[Nicole Biamonte]

>
> Dmitri wrote:
> BTW, I wouldn't be totally shocked to find I-II-IV in some kind of New
> Orleans jazz context.  I can almost hear it in my mind's ear, can you?


I think you could probably find a I-II-IV-V turnaround fairly easily, but
I'm skeptical of I-II-IV on its own in that repertoire.  I don't know an
earlier example than "Eight Days a Week."  I also can't find a good example
of bVII-I-bIII; does anyone have one?

I think I-II-IV belongs to a family of 025-based pentatonic-triad
progressions like the blues "axe-fall" (IV-bIII-I), the "Green Onions" riff
(I-bIII-IV), and similar dominant-based versions (I-bVII-V and V-bVII-I).

Since the original poster asked about sources, I'll note that Allan Moore
briefly discusses this progression in "Patterns of Harmony," *Popular Music
11/1 *(1992).  He interprets it as a third-substitution for I-bVII-IV.

Nicole Biamonte
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
University of Iowa
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