On 2 Jun 2007 at 19:14, John Howell wrote: > In functional harmony it > is the pull of the halfstep between 3 and 4 that moves the harmony > away from the tonic and into the subdominant region
Even in isolation I do not hear the pull of this half step as from 3 to 4, but from 4 to 3. The third scale degree, being in the tonic chord, does not feel unstable melodically to me, unless it is harmonized to make it need resolution. This seems to me to be a major flaw in your argument about IV. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
