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Music theory

a dominant chord borrowed from another key that resolves to a chord other than the tonic, briefly treating it as a local tonic.

In music theory, secondary dominant refers to a dominant chord borrowed from another key that resolves to a chord other than the tonic, briefly treating it as a local tonic. This meaning comes from Piston (1941) in Harmony.[1]

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chord3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs dominant1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct harmony3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Piston, W. (1941). Harmony. W. W. Norton. Open Library record

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