Chloe by Gus Kahn & Neil Moret

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 6

Form: A Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → B Section → D 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

• Am – E7 – Am – Ddim – Am – Em – F – C – F7 – C7 – F7 – E7
  vi – III7 – vi – ii° – vi – iii – IV – I – IV7 – I7 – IV7 – III7

A Section 2

• Am – F7 – E7 – Am – Ddim – Am – Em – F – C – D7 – G9 – Gdim
  vi – IV7 – III7 – vi – ii° – vi – iii – IV – I – II7 – V9 – v°

B Section 1

• Dm7 – G7 (×3)
  ii7 – V7
• Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  v7 – I7
• Caug
  I+

C Section

• F – Dm7 – G7 – C – Am – D7
  IV – ii7 – V7 – I – vi – II7
• Dm7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7

B Section 2

• Dm7 – G7 (×3)
  ii7 – V7
• Gm7 – C7 – F – F6
  v7 – I7 – IV – IV6

D Section

• Am7 – D7 – C – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – Dm7 – D7 – G7 – C
  vi7 – II7 – I – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – ii7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Ddim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G9.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm7.

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.