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Logically, they make sense: secondary submediants function as vi/x, while secondary mediants function as iii/x, x being whatever chord is being tonicized. ... In short, an extended tonicization is halfway between a tonicization and a full-fledged modulation.
- What is a secondary dominant in music theory?
- What do secondary dominant chords resolve to?
- What is a secondary tonic?
What is a secondary dominant in music theory?
DEFINITION: A secondary dominant is an altered chord having a dominant or leading tone relationship to a chord in the key other than the tonic. An altered chord is a chord containing at least one tone that is foreign to the key. Using secondary dominants results in the tonicization of the chord of resolution.
What do secondary dominant chords resolve to?
In jazz harmony, a secondary dominant is any dominant seventh chord which occurs on a weak beat and resolves downward by a perfect fifth. Thus, a chord is a secondary dominant when it functions as the dominant of some harmonic element other than the key's tonic and resolves to that element.
What is a secondary tonic?
It is the process of temporarily making a non-tonic chord sound like the tonic, just for a moment, by using Secondary Chords before immediately returning back to the original key.
