As a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Harlan knew his chords. But his often-quoted formula glosses over a couple of key questions: Which three chords, and when do you use them? This ...
A musical response to Lacan's concept of the objet petit a -the imaginary ' object-cause' of desire -accounts for certain songs by Charles Ives in which 'tonic' chords are signified by complex ...