At 08:01 PM 7/2/2005, you wrote:
It's interesting that you mention the plagal cadence. To me the modern extension of what might function as plagal would be a chord that includes the tonic and not the leading tone. Cadences such as vi-I, bVI-I, A6-I, bVII9-I, and even V11-I (a Debussy favorite) might be considered as plagal.
One of my favorite things to think about is the idea of the "secondary subdominant." Not infrequently VII can be viewed as IV/IV. I have found some examples in the Bach 371 where at least IMO it's clear that he's thinking IV/IV. Anyone know of any writing about this? I've never run across any.
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