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Old Jul 1 2008, 4:24 AM
oingo86 oingo86 is offline

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Williams certainly likes to screw around with traditional hymn-like tonality, doesn't he? My advice is to treat a lot of the weird harmonies as they are - created by a whole lot of dissonant passing tones that really don't add up to much of anything when analyzed traditionally.

Williams treats a lot of chord functions loosely, a la Prokofiev. The penultimate chord in this cue looks nothing like a dominant chord, but it certainly sounds and functions that way.

That's all I can say about this - I too stumbled across this a couple years back, and said 'wtf?' But I actually LOVE this cue, just for it's kooky use of harmony.
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