Great. Thanks!
“Unresolved cadence.” Used to hate that on the Parade Ground.
And speaking of Gershwin, Ira Gershwin's Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started. I know very little about music -- being one of those who only "knows what I like" and am ignorant of the theory. Which brings me to the ending of Berigan's I Can't Get Started. The song is a ballad with a great trumpet solo. But the ending, while not dissonant, has long struck me as not fitting with the mood of the song as a whole. To my untrained ears, those final few uptempo, hurried notes just seem to be tacked on. It's one of my favorite songs and I still recall listening to it in my childhood days back in the 1940s. Even then, as a kid, the ending struck me a somewhat cartoonish way to wrap up a great piece of music.
Interesting. I’ve never made it that far in “Rose Marie” to notice, but it sounds more like the final note of the soundtrack to an old Universal horror movie! :)
I made a wind chime that played an augmented chord. Gave it to a musician friend. I knew it would drive him to distraction, as he would always wait for the resolution that never came!
I remember hearing that many times (My Dad was a projectionist and Mom was a member of the Nelson Eddy Fan Club..so we had this movie projected on the living room wall many times!). I always thought it was a “Stretch” or glitch in the 16mm film, on the soundtrack.
I can’t believe that it was INTENTIONAL, but I guess it WAS! hahaha
It’s a deceptive cadence V-vi, which is unexpected (hence the term deceptive cadence) as it ends a piece written in a major key on the relative minor chord.
At least that’s what my ear hears.
Maybe the last chord is altered a bit, providing the dissonance.