Date: 2012-09-15 05:25 pm (UTC)
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Wait. I'm totally confused. Isn't F-Minor the relative minor to A-Flat-Major, vi being the relative minor to I? Or am I wrong about the meaning of the phrase "relative minor" (but Wikip agrees with me)?

In any event (tell me if I'm wrong), the song never goes to B-Minor/C-Flat-Minor, but rather to B-Major (C-Flat-Major?). And that's a total key shift (right?), B-Major now being the key for the pre-chorus (B-Major the tonic, with E-Major and G-Flat-Major showing up as its IV and V). And since my A-Flat (G-Sharp, whatever) has played with being both major and minor, heading from the former to the latter, the relationship I'm pointing out (or flailing in the direction of) is that A-Flat-Minor is B-Major's relative minor. Or, if "relative minor" is the wrong terminology, A-Flat-Minor is vi to B-Major's I.

Or — if we want to take A-Flat/G-Sharp as our baseline standard, since that's where we started — then B-Major/C-Flat Major is its III, but only if our A-Flat/G-Sharp is minor. Damned if I know what the relationship between of B-Major/C-Flat Major is to A-Flat Major/G-Sharp Major.

Bear in mind that I was last instructed in (rudimentary) music theory in 1973.

Of course the song seems very simple; the description is what's complicated. Maybe the description would be simple as well, if I knew what I was talking about.
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