wisselreeks

English translation: series of modulations

12:07 Mar 22, 2022

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Science - Music / Analysis of harmonic series of chords

Dutch term or phrase: wisselreeks

Aan het eind loopt de brug dan weer via een wisselreeks terug naar de tonica G. (This is from p. 162 of Ger Tillekens’ book “Het geluid van de Beatles”. The author is discussing the bridge in “You Can’t Do That”. He interprets the chord progression as having dual signification equally appropriate for E or G.

David White

English translation:series of modulations

Explanation:
I have a professional music background and had a scholarship to Juilliard. I would say "series of modulations" would do the trick here. No need to search for anything fancier.

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Modulation is basically what you do to change keys. The word cadence is often used in this context to describe the type of shift in tonality. Common words are tonic (the home key, or do in the scale - and the modulation changes what do is), dominant (sol in the scale so a dominant cadence will move from sol to do) plagal cadence (fa to do) deceptive cadence (do to la). The complication comes in when modulation is ambiguous, so it will go through a series of chords and you will think that you have modulated to a new key (i.e. a new do) but it goes on to yet another key and maybe even another and you don't yet feel that you have arrived at a new home. That is why I have suggested that it is a series of modulations. The words "turn around" bring to mind the Italian musical term Da Capo which usually means go back and repeat to a point which is called Fine or end. It sounds to me like the description relates to a series of chords or harmonies (the bridge?) which bring you to the point where you recapitulate previous material (possibly in a different key) until the end of the piece. But I may be wrong. I haven't read the book. But at most, the book will be describing a specific example of the generic term "series of modulations".

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series of modulations

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tonal sequence

Cillie Swart

modulation chords // modulation phrase

Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)

turnaround progression

Michael Beijer

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Michael Beijer

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Barend van Zadelhoff

Netherlands

@Asker

20:06 Mar 22, 2022

It is called 'turn-back' in your book, as Michael already indicated.

Met de laatste akkoorden kunnen lange, naar de tonica teruglopende, kettingen van bovendominanten worden opgebouwd, zoals de zogeheten turn-back of wisselreeks: E → A → D → G → C.

There is a further interesting description of this turn-back (wisselreeks) in this book:

Figuur 27: Turn-back als niveauwisseling in het toonrooster

De turn-back onderstreept het belang van de grote- en de kleine-tertsenlijnen van het toonrooster. Als we de reeks akkoorden zien als een voortgaande kwinten-reeks, dan vormt de overgang van de tonica I naar de mediant III als eerste stap immers wel een heel verre sprong naar de vierde bovenkwint. In het toonrooster is de stap van I naar III echter een korte sprong van slechts een grote terts omhoog.
Snel keert de kadens, vandaar ook haar Engelse naam turn-back, met een omweg weer naar de tonica terug. Vanuit het tooncentrum c gerekend loopt die omweg via het E-akkoord op de e-1 en het D-akkoord op de d-1 (figuur 27)

https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME03/MIRROR/Het_gel...

Michael Beijer

United Kingdom

@David:

15:21 Mar 22, 2022

What are your thoughts on what has been suggested so far?

Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)

Germany

The term modulation

14:42 Mar 22, 2022

is explained here, and it matches the question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation_(music)

Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)

Germany

A turnaround

14:41 Mar 22, 2022

may be something quite different, and I'm not sure that this is what's meant here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround_(music)

Michael Beijer

United Kingdom

@David:

13:46 Mar 22, 2022

If you look in the same book you mentioned (“Het geluid van de Beatles”), in my ref, it seems that this is called a "turnaround progression" (or "turn-back", as it is referred to in the book).

See: https://www.google.com/search?q=turnaround progression

writeaway

Even many lowly non-paying ProZ members

13:06 Mar 22, 2022

are more tempted to answer questions if they can collect KudoZ points.

Textpertise

United Kingdom

Look up "Harmonic Series" inter alia in Wikipedia

12:44 Mar 22, 2022

See if it solves your problem. As a non-Proz member, if you ask Proz translators to do your work, you should at least refrain from making it a no-points question. Do you really think it is right to use the resources of paid Proz members without paying Proz?

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tonal sequence

Explanation:
At the end, it returns to the tonic G via a tonal sequence.

https://intmus.github.io/inttheory20-21/18-tonal-sequences/a1-tonalsequences.html

Cillie Swart
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1 hr confidence:

turnaround progression

Explanation:
See my extensive reference comments!

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Hmm, on second thought, I was just reading that Beatles book again, and its author is definitely treating "turn-around" and "turn-back" as two separate things. see e.g.:

"Twee van die kadensen zijn we hiervoor al tegengekomen: de turn-around en de turn-back. Samen vormen ze de belangrijkste, zij het niet de enige akkoordenprogressies die aan de basis lagen van de beatmuziek."

"Voor de muzikale experimenten waarmee zij hun publiek bestookten, volstond wat ze met de kadensen van de turn-back en de turn-around hadden geleerd."

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Het_geluid_van_de_Bea...

… which leaves me puzzled.

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so, following the author of that book, "wisselreeks" would be "turn-back progression".

see their statement:

"De bron daarvan moet met grote waarschijnlijkheid worden gezocht in weer een andere kadens, **de wisselreeks oftewel de turn-back**. Samen met de turn-around kwamen we die in het vorige hoofdstuk al tegen."

(https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Het_geluid_van_de_Bea... )

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Turnarounds (also known as turnbacks) are most often used during the last two bars of a piece to bring us back to the tonic, but it should be pointed that they can be used in many situations particularly into rhythm changes for example.
De bron daarvan moet met grote waarschijnlijkheid worden gezocht in weer een andere kadens, de wisselreeks oftewel de turn-back. Samen met de turn-around kwamen we die in het vorige hoofdstuk al tegen.

Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
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59 mins confidence:

modulation chords // modulation phrase

Explanation:
my suggestion - no time to confirm this, I'm afraid

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation_(music)

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As to the term 'phrase':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_(music)

Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
Germany
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Native speaker of: German

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series of modulations

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Reference information:
see "de wisselreeks oftewel de turn-back", in:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=alHo2MjIRgAC&pg=PA141&lp... ("Het geluid van de Beatles: een muzieksociologische studie")

"… De bron daarvan moet met grote waarschijnlijkheid worden gezocht in weer een andere kadens, de wisselreeks oftewel de turn-back. Samen met de turn-around kwamen we die in het vorige hoofdstuk al tegen. Ook deze kadens draagt haar Engelse naam niet voor niets. Het is een teruglopende reeks van dominanten. Elk daarvan suggereert dat het volgende akkoord de tonica is, maar die blijkt op haar beurt dan weer de dominant van het volgende akkoord. Samen vormt de reeks van dominanten op die manier een ketting van neerwaartse kwintsprongen die de luisteraar stapsgewijs terugvoeren naar de tonica.

[image]

Figuur 26 Turn-back in coda van Little Child

Een doorsnee exemplaar van de wisselreeks vinden we onder meer in Little Child. Aan het slot van dat nummer staat, zoals figuur 26 laat zien, de herhaalde sequentie |VI7|II7|V7|I|. Ondanks de wisselende rangcijfers van de toontrappen vormt het geheel een aflopende reeks van dominanten, die kan worden genoteerd als: |V7 van |V7 van | V7 van |I|. Dat lijkt al een lange ketting van drie opeenvolgende dominanten, maar vaak gaat er aan het geheel nog een vierde, soms zelfs vijfde akkoord vooraf. …"

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is a "turn-back" or "turnback" the same as a "turnaround"?

see: https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/theory/78895-whats-turnback-...

Q: What's a "Turnback" in the Barry Harris school?

A: Never heard turnback used as a musical term. Turnaround?

A: It's just another name for a turnaround.

A: Gentlemen, a "turnback" in a 12-bar blues is the V7 chord in the 10th measure. It's called that because that's where you begin to "turn back" to the tonic. In this context, the "turnaround" is the 12th measure, or more precisely, beats 2-4 as the first beat is typically the tonic. As explained to me a long, long time ago by a friend and protégé of Magic Sam.

A: For David Baker, at least in his "How To Play Bebop" series, a turnback was the last two bars of an 8-bar section, wherein you are 'turning back' to start on the I again (or whatever the first chord of the next A section is).

In that sense, turnback has a use that 'turnaround' does not. (Though like everyone else, I use "turnaround" and only use "turnback" in a conversation such as this.) But I think we all now know that 'turnaround' doesn't just refer to the, well, turnaround at the end of a section. (I think for a lot of swing tunes, esp rhythm tunes, the A section was seen of as nothing-but-I until the 'turnback' at the end of each 8-bar section.)

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"turnaround" in Dutch and English Wikipedias

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround

Turnaround
De turnaround is de benaming voor (een aantal maten met) akkoorden die een inleiding vormen naar het begin van het muziekstuk, en gebruikt in de popmuziek en met name in de jazz.

De akkoordenreeks is een cadens (niet noodzakelijkerwijs in de toonsoort van het stuk) die leidt naar het eerste akkoord in de eerste maat. Veelal gaat het hier om een reeks II-V-verbindingen of varianten hierop door het gebruik van tussendominanten en tritonusvervangers.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround_(music)

Turnaround (music)
In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song.[1]

The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically.

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compare:

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Het_geluid_van_de_Bea... ("Het geluid van de Beatles: een muzieksociologische studie")

"bereikt. Het akkoord kan bijvoorbeeld worden aangespeeld als het begin van een wisselreeks. Zo’n lange wisselreeks vormt de hook van het nummer Cry Me A River, dat Julie London in 1955 tot een evergreen wist te maken. In dat liedje…"

and

http://danhaerle.com/Magic Motives Clinic.pdf

"...well-known motive, the "Cry Me a River" lick, comes from a five-note ... This is another turnaround progression with a different motive used on each chord."

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"What is a Turnaround?
Turnarounds (also known as turnbacks) are most often used during the last two bars of a piece to bring us back to the tonic, but it should be pointed that they can be used in many situations particularly into rhythm changes for example."

(https://www.jazz-guitar-licks.com/blog/lessons/the-most-impo... )

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De bron daarvan moet met grote waarschijnlijkheid worden gezocht in weer een andere kadens, de wisselreeks oftewel de turn-back.

Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
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