<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Dmitri, dear colleagues,<div>is it plausible to say that the deceptive resolution in minor has a tonic function? Deceptive resolution is first of all a syntagmatic term, as I think. It states that the resolution chord is replaced by a "fake" one. But it is not clear from the outset that the deceptive status of the chord stems from a shared tonal function. The latter is a paradigmatic condition. The clue to the deception may well be a voice-leading detail, such as the expected soprano clause. My subjective impression is that - prototypically - the deceptive VI in minor has subdominant function rather than tonic. The situation in minor seems to be different from the analogous situation in Major. So far this is a question about the prototypical deceptive resolution.</div><div>The concrete situation is more complicated. In the light of Dan Harrison's concept of tonal functions being distributed over bases, associates and agents one could tend regard the Gb-major chord as a projection of the Dominant agent F#. But this interpretation would diminish the role of the raising fourth Bb - Eb in the bass, which Stephen Taylor in his reply associated with a "V-I illusion". If we accept that reading of the Gb-Major-sixt chord as a false dominant for the root position Eb-chord, I would be tempted to interpret this as a "V/IV - IV" - illusion in g-minor rather than as a "V-I illusion". In other words: Even in this sophisticated progression I still find it more plausible to hear VI as having subdominant function.</div><div>In this reading the Inception chord progression becomes an instance of I - V/IV - IV - V - I. But the problematic spot for this reading is - of course - the Gb-Major-Sixth chord. In Lendvai's terms it could alternatively represent subdominant function on its own by virtue of its fundament Gb.</div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Thomas Noll</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">2) The G-F# alternation in the melody suggests Gb and B as altered dominants of G, with Eb a deceptive resolution or tonic substitute. </span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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