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hello everyone!
i am writing here even if the topic is not strictly jazz-related, but it is probably the right place to reveal a mystery that keeps me awake at night!
Subject: the song "CHE COSS'E' L'AMOR" by Vinicio Capossela
In particular, the line from the refrain that reads: "[...] MA SI APPOGGI PURE VOLENTIERI [...]".
Here... in this line....harmonically...what the hell is happening????!!! what chords does it use?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghj7B1XmF1E
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Around the 55-56 second mark...(the part under accusation!)
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What do you feel before and after 55-56?
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Ebm9 on "ma s'ap-", probably an Ab on "-poggi pure volentie-" and again Ebm9 on "ri"
... or something like that ... more or less framed
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The harmonic explanation I can give for that passage is as follows: the piece is in A minor and before the Ebm chord there is a chromatic descent in the bass C, B, Bb; at that point one would expect an A7, but instead Ebm arrives, which is a tritone substitution with a change of the third and therefore of the harmonic function, and this connects it to the missing A7; in turn, the Ebm is the second degree, followed by the fifth, Ab7; the tonic would be Db but it never arrives, because it is evaded by another chromatic movement Eb, D, C# that resolves on Am in a rather free way, that is, without too many harmonic constraints.
It is a rather original way to revive the harmony of the piece, which up to that point was quite predictable.
