In Reply to: You Have NO Idea What You're Talking About posted by Newey on October 25, 2015 at 21:33:07:
the tonic G, which can be disorienting to diatonically-oriented ears. Perhaps that's why you didn't think the piece ended very decisively. In Mixolydian and other modes BTW, the "leading tone" (or 7th note) is best called the subtonic.
The final alternating chords are F/Bb/D (connected by E, F) and landing on G/B natural/D. So your claim that the piece ends on the leading tone simply is incorrect. It ends on the tonic "G".
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Follow Ups
- Sigh, the piece ends in G Mixolydian; thus what you call the "leading tone" is F, and yes: a whole step from - jdaniel@jps.net 23:09:03 10/25/15 (10)
- Finally - Newey 22:23:49 10/27/15 (1)
- Indeed, finally a post of yours worthy of a substantial response. - jdaniel@jps.net 05:44:40 10/28/15 (0)
- Was just thinking - maybe the OP is hearlng the key of the last movement as C-major. . . - Chris from Lafayette 18:57:19 10/26/15 (2)
- As I Look At the Scores and Listen and Think - Newey 22:18:01 10/27/15 (0)
- We'll see if any of our detective work... "maters." : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 19:03:20 10/26/15 (0)
- You are correct, sir - a very striking ending indeed - Chris from Lafayette 11:40:30 10/26/15 (4)
- That's Hot On The Trail - Newey 22:15:43 10/27/15 (0)
- Well thank goodness, was listening thru very crappy laptop speakers. - jdaniel@jps.net 18:49:48 10/26/15 (0)
- Yes! Stanford had his moments - John Marks 14:27:17 10/26/15 (1)
- Hey - there's no more sincere admirer of Stanford's "The Bluebird" than I am [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:53:22 10/26/15 (0)