on 4/29/02 3:45 PM, Andrew Stiller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In fact, I would be leery myself of applying functional terms to rock > harmonies because IMO this is not a tonal music. Cadences, for > example, can be formed by just about any chord followed by the tonic. The same could be said of many modal approaches to jazz harmony. Just because the harmonic conventions are different than traditional dominant/tonic resolutions in no way negates the tonality of the music. It's perfectly obvious that there is a tonal center to any of this (rock) music. In fact, the problem is that in most instances, it's TOO obvious. Doug
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