View source for Happy Birthday Emily Cooper

[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:Sara johnsen (san francisco)]]
[[Category: Sean Mahan (San Francisco)]]
[[Media:HappyBirthday.mp3|Played over the phone - Sara and Sean sang along]]


(shh!  copyright!)

==== this is awesome ====
i like the secondary dominants and minor chord on the third "happy birthday...".  hilarious harmonies, too.  yay! [[User:Gabemcelwain|Gabemcelwain]] 12:22, 27 July 2007 (PDT)
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which part is the secondary dominants? i asked google what those were but i'm still not sure. the minor chord was sean's (excellent) idea.:) [[User:Sara|Sara]] 21:05, 27 July 2007 (PDT)


==== secondary dominants? ====
according to my old music theory book, a secondary dominant is a chord that is not in the key you're playing in, but has a dominant relationship to one of the chords that are in the key.  for instance, in the key of D, A is the dominant chord (fifth scale degree, the chord based on it is called by the roman numeral, V).  But in the key of A, E is the dominant chord (fifth scale degree, etc.).  So if you were in the key of D, and you played and E and then an A, you could be said to have used a secondary dominant.  The way those two chords would be notated by analysis people in that context would be V/V V, or "five of five, five".  The dominant of the dominant, then the dominant.  You can play secondary dominants of other chords, too, I think.  V/IV to IV, V/ii to ii.  Does that make any sense?  Basically, it's a chord borrowed from another key that wants to resolve to a chord that's in the key you're in.  F# major in your birthday song sounds that way to me, since it should be f# minor (iii) in the key of D.  even though you resolve it up to G rather than to b, of which F# is the dominant.

woof, sorry about all that.  there's a reason i don't teach music.  i barely understand it myself.  if anybody on this wiki wants to explain it better, please feel free!  (DK I'm looking in your direction...)[[User:Gabemcelwain|Gabemcelwain]] 19:25, 29 July 2007 (PDT)