This may be a tricky question to answer in the Askville format: It's about musical chords that have wowed you (read on)?

This may be a tricky question to answer in the Askville format: It's about musical chords that have wowed you (read on). What I want to know is: What *part* of a song (or other musical piece) has blown you away because of the chord that accompanies it? To illustrate, here are some of my favorite examples:1 - In Billy Joel's "She's Always a Woman to Me":- The chord featured on the LAST word of these lines: "And she only reveals what she wants you to see""She'll take what you give her as long as it's free""But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be"- The second "Oh" in the middle part, as in:"Oh, and she never gives out"Hope the above makes sense!

Anyway, what musical chords have wowed you? Asked by primerib 53 months ago Similar questions: tricky question answer Askville format musical chords wowed read Entertainment > Music.

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I understand your question.... And I hope that I can do it justice. First of all, anything ending in tierce di Picardie (a picardy third) is usually something that affects me. That is when a song is going along in a minor key but the final chord is a parallel Major chord.

I will try my best to find an example to attach. I am thinking that "The End" by the Doors is an easy one to recognize because the whole entire song is so entrenched in minor mode but ends gently, but dramatically, with the Picardy third. Then, everyone should listen to the opening chord progression of "Tempus Fugit" by Yes at least once in his or her life!

I tend to like rock music that has an introduction that is almost totally chordal in nature, as "Stepping Out" by Joe Jackson is. Music affects me greatly and I know that I have a million examples of answers to your question. The ones attached are the ones I thought of immediately.

This is actually easier for us to answer than it was for you to ask. We can attach examples. ;) Sources: my opinion Video This is The Doors song that I spoke of.It was hard to find a video that stayed with it until the end of "The End" heheh.

You have to really listen at the last chord of the song, but then you'll understand the Picardy third. Video "Stepping Out" the opening is especially exciting to me, but the chordal nature of the whole song is awesome. Video Another chordal opening that still gives me chills.

:D "Tempus Fugit" Yes .

What you are talking about isn't the chords themselves. What impresses you is the choice of the chords, creating an interesting or arresting harmonic progression. For example, in your number 1, the chord on the word "be" is a plain F sharp major triad, nothing inherently interesting.

But the song itself is in D major, and that F sharp major immediately precedes a shift into B minor, the relative minor of D major. F sharp major is the dominant of B minor. In other words, that F sharp major signals a (temporary) change a minor key, before it circles around through the subdominant G maj, then A dim7, back to D maj.It lets you know a shift in mood that adds to the richness of the song.

I am sure that explanation sounds pretty prosaic, but that is essentially why that chord sounds interesting to you. Your second example is a more significant scale change, from D maj to D minor, a little more daring than some of the previous changes. Neither device is particularly innovative, but they are a notch or two more sophisticated than the usual pop song.

What chords have wowed me? Well, in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, last movement, there is a loud blare of strings and brasses, discordant and loud, with a sustained minor sixth, that immediately precedes the bass vocal solo. I don't know if it is truly innovative, but it seems that way to me.

To my knowledge there was nothing like that blast of sound, almost noise, in western music previously. Re chord progressions, I am impressed by Frank Martin's Mass for unaccompanied double choir, because unlike a lot of 20th century classical music, it is tuneful and "understandable". And yet I don't understand how it works.

With most other melodic music, I can easily make out the chord progressions, and even play them on the piano. Also, some jazz songs are harmonically interesting yet accessible. Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust is one.

It has an evocative, haunting feeling, and yet it isn't easily captured in three or four chords. There is lots of other music that is more harmonically adventurous, like 12-tone, but I think it generally tries to create a new harmonic language. Once your ear is trained, it gains meaning.

I am more impressed by work that uses the "conventional," vernacular harmonic language to express some feeling, but in some innovative, not easily summarized way.

The Tristan Chord; much Strauss; the Berg violin concerto; Brahms German Requiem I can’t work out how to show musical notation here, and I’m more for classical music, but Richard Strauss manages a few crowd-pullers: there’s the opening chords of Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Der Rosenkavlier is littered with them ... also Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde (The Tristan Chord has had books written about it). The opening chord of the ’Selig Sind’ movement of Brahm’s German Requiem always has me in bits, and for any serious music-lover I’d recommend the Berg Violin Concerto, which has a huge intellectual shock part-way through (which I’ll leave you to discover) and then the closing lines have the violin going higher and higher and higher until you don’t think it can be possible to sustain it. EnglishLady's Recommendations Wagner - Tristan und Isolde Amazon List Price: $39.98 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) EnglishLady's Recommendations Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Carlos Kleiber, Otto Schenk - Lott, von Otter, Bonney - Wiener Staatsoper Amazon List Price: $39.98 Used from: $39.987 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 15 reviews) Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" (1935) / Wolfgang Rihm: "Time Chant" Music for Violin & Orchestra (1999.988) - Anne-Sophie Mutter Amazon List Price: $19.98 Used from: $9.987 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 8 reviews) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Amazon List Price: $49.98 Used from: $39.98 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 23 reviews) Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45/Alt-Rhapsodie, Op.

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