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But then it's just the same as a German sixth but treat the V as a I?

A tritone substitution is like - what if a Neapolitan 6th with a minor 7th added to it resolved straight to the tonic? It has the same tendency tones as a V chord (in the key of C, B and F) which would resolve the same way as a V chord would. But the Neapolitan chord's root is technically Db - a tritone away from V which is why it is usually called a tritone substitution in jazz. Because the traditional V chord is substituted instead with a chord whose root is a tritone away but functions the same way as a dominant seventh. But the Neapolitan would have to have the B in it (the 7th). And it also is harder to avoid parallels since the whole major chord, Db, F, Ab is all meant to resolve down straight to the tonic C, E, G with only the B resolving in contrary motion to the rest of the tones.

I think it is very difficult for music to “tell a story”, at least without lyrics. Some composers tried that with symphonic poems and, in the end, they are just that: symphonies. Another question is whether a music, subjectively, provokes certain emotions. This piece does, to me it is nostalgic. In fact, it has technical elements in the composition and in the execution that are typical of this. And it is very good.

I find it a well crafted and very nice piece. There is not an excess of orchestration and the families are spoken and happen. I only noticed that in some passages with a somewhat denser writing, for example from m 78 onwards, the rhythmic part of the strings sounds a bit weak. Given that it is a dance perhaps ...

HI Any chord containing the tritone that resolves the following chord has dominant function therefore the tritone substitute is but it can also be a diminished chord, or one with superimpositions, etc. There are many examples in romantic music, and onwards.

Wow I'm sure I'm of those theory nerd! I don't think the tritone substition act as dominant but rather just decorated chords since I never believe a dominant chord can be substituted by a tritone chord! For me it doesn't have any function other than decoration in post cadential passage, just like at the end of Schubert's String Quintet. But I don't listen to jazz at all haha! Henry

Beautiful!