After the Ball by Charles K. Harris

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 12

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → C Section → D Section → A Section → G Section → C Section → H Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

• G – D7
  I – V7

B Section

• Am – D7 – G
  ii – V7 – I

C Section 1

• E7 – Am
  VI7 – ii

D Section 1

• C – G – A7 – D7 – G
  IV – I – II7 – V7 – I

E Section

• Em – Am – B7 – C – G
  vi – ii – III7 – IV – I

F Section

• C – G – A – A7 – D7
  IV – I – II – II7 – V7

C Section 2

• G – E7 – Am
  I – VI7 – ii

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

A Section 2

• G – C – G – D7
  I – IV – I – V7

G Section

• Am – E7 – Am – D7 – G – D7
  ii – VI7 – ii – V7 – I – V7

C Section 3

• G – E – E7 – A7
  I – VI – VI7 – II7

H Section

• D7 – G – E7 – A7 – D7 – G
  V7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Am.
• A7 acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.