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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dmitri wrote:<br>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? </blockquote>
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<div>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? </div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>Since the original poster asked about sources, I'll note that Allan Moore briefly discusses this progression in "Patterns of Harmony," <em>Popular Music 11/1 </em>(1992). He interprets it as a third-substitution for I-bVII-IV.</div>
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<div>Nicole Biamonte</div>
<div>Assistant Professor of Music Theory</div>
<div>University of Iowa</div></div>