by SleepyHead <simonharpham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 12, 2008 at 01:46 PM
On 11 Mar, 17:18, knucmo <knucmo23...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have read here that Satie was an innovator in that he made use of
> 'retrogressions to nullify the sense of key' - is this like a V-IV -
> and how is this retrogressive?
Take a chord progression, say vi ii7b V7 I: This will confirm the key
of I, whatever that is.
The retrograde of this progression (i.e. the progression played
backwards) is I V7 ii7b vi. The overall effect of this progression
will be to sound like it's not in the key of whatever I happens to be,
despite being written in I.
That's it.
