Answer by Nuno André for Can Flat ii Function as a Dominant and Pre Dominant?
N6 and IIb7 are not the same chord and do not share their tonal function.IIb7 includes the 4th and the 7th of the key (the same tritone as V7), and can therefore act as the dominant of I. While N6 (a...
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In the key of C, the chord Db(b) is an N6, pre dominant chord. However when reading about tritone substitution Db7 can also be a dominant substitution.Is it the inversion and the added 7 that makes...
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Tritone substitution is a jazz concept and because the jazz concept is concerned with the tritone of TI and FA being in both a dominant seventh chord and its tritone substitution, both chords are...
View ArticleAnswer by Max for Can Flat ii Function as a Dominant and Pre Dominant?
I'm not sure the other responses get to the heart of the matter, which is that these two uses of bII come from very different musical practices. So, the answer to “Can bII function as a dominant and...
View ArticleAnswer by Lazy for Can Flat ii Function as a Dominant and Pre Dominant?
Some remarks additional to Nuno’s answer:The N6 chord is specifically subdominant because it merely replaces the fifth of the minor iv by the minor 6th. Note that contrary to the sixte ajoutée the...
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