Coquette by Johnny Green, Gus Kahn & Carmen Lombardo - Piano Chords, Voicings & Structure Breakdown

Harmonic Analysis & Structure

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A 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

D
I
Em7 – A7 (×2)
ii7 – V7
D – B7 – Em7 – A7
I – VI7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

D
I
Em7 – A7 (×2)
ii7 – V7
D
I

Bridge

Am7 – D7 – G – Bm7 – E7 – Em7 – A7
v7 – I7 – IV – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

D
I
Em7 – A7 (×2)
ii7 – V7
D – B7
I – VI7

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
D	I	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
Em7	ii7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
A7	V7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
B7	VI7	Secondary dominant (V/ii)	A Section
Am7	v7	Borrowed from D minor	Bridge
D7	I7	Secondary dominant (V/IV)	Bridge
G	IV	In the key	Bridge
Bm7	vi7	In the key	Bridge
E7	II7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge

Harmonic highlights

Am7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
B7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Em7.
D7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G.

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.

Sources & Accuracy

Every chord on this page comes from the public-domain lead sheet listed first below. Piano voicings are our arrangement of the reported chord symbols, not a note-for-note transcription.

the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018)Community lead sheet

Chords as written in a lead sheet of a public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive; not checked against a recording.

Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.

All Piano Voicings

#	Section	Chord	Left hand	Right hand	Sources
1	A Section 1, part 1	D	D2, A2	A3, D4, F♯4	—
2	A Section 1, part 2 (×2)	Em7	E2, B2	B3, D4, G4	—
3	A Section 1, part 2 (×2)	A7	A2, E3	C♯4, E4, G4	—
4	A Section 1, part 3	D	D2, A2	D4, F♯4, A4	—
5	A Section 1, part 3	B7	B1, F♯2	D♯4, F♯4, A4	—
6	A Section 1, part 3	Em7	E2, B2	D4, G4, B4	—
7	A Section 1, part 3	A7	A2, E3	E4, G4, C♯5	—
8	A Section 2, part 1	D	D2, A2	F♯4, A4, D5	—
9	A Section 2, part 2 (×2)	Em7	E2, B2	G4, B4, D5	—
10	A Section 2, part 2 (×2)	A7	A2, E3	G4, C♯5, E5	—
11	A Section 2, part 3	D	D2, A2	F♯4, A4, D5	—
12	Bridge	Am7	A2, E3	E4, G4, C5	—
13	Bridge	D7	D2, A2	F♯4, A4, C5	—
14	Bridge	G	G2, D3	G4, B4, D5	—
15	Bridge	Bm7	B1, F♯2	F♯4, A4, D5	—
16	Bridge	E7	E2, B2	G♯4, B4, D5	—
17	Bridge	Em7	E2, B2	G4, B4, D5	—
18	Bridge	A7	A2, E3	G4, C♯5, E5	—
19	A Section 3, part 1	D	D2, A2	F♯4, A4, D5	—
20	A Section 3, part 2 (×2)	Em7	E2, B2	G4, B4, D5	—
21	A Section 3, part 2 (×2)	A7	A2, E3	G4, C♯5, E5	—
22	A Section 3, part 3	D	D2, A2	F♯4, A4, D5	—
23	A Section 3, part 3	B7	B1, F♯2	F♯4, A4, D♯5	—