Jared Forth

Dancing About Architecture

Mapping the shape of harmony.

Music theory explored through a geometric lens: chords, scales, and progressions as shapes, distances, and paths. Alongside that, harmonic analyses of jazz standards and the conventions behind them.


Conventions

Intervals In Music

intervals

Chord Naming Conventions

chord symbols

Harmonic Analysis Symbols

analysis symbols

Harmonic Function

harmonic function

Secondary Dominant Chords, Tonicization, and Related II-7

secondary dominantsrelated ii

Standards

All the Things You Are

Jerome Kernmodal interchange

Beautiful Love

Victor Youngminor keytritone substitution

Body and Soul

Johnny Greensecondary dominantstritone substitutionmodal interchange

Days of Wine and Roses

Henry Mancini

From This Moment On

Cole Porter

I Can't Get Started

Vernon Dukesecondary dominants

Like Someone In Love

Jimmy Van Heusen

Lover Man

Jimmy Davismodal interchange

My Funny Valentine

Richard Rodgersminor keytritone substitution

My Shining Hour

Harold Arlen

Round Midnight

Thelonious Monkminor keymodal interchange

Summertime

George Gershwinminor keysecondary dominantsmodal interchange

There Will Never Be Another You

Harry Warren

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Cole Portermodal interchange

Yesterdays

Jerome Kernminor key

You Stepped Out of a Dream

Nacio Herb Browntritone substitution