Dance Away by Roxy Music

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Chorus → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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

Intro

• B♭ – B♭/A♭ – Gm – F
  V – V (bass A♭) – iii – II

Verse 1

• E♭ – C – A♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ (×2)
  I – VI – IV – V – IV – V
• A♭ – B♭
  IV – V

Chorus 1

• F – Dm – B♭ – C (×2)
  II – vii – V – VI
• B♭
  V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• F – Dm – B♭ – C (×2)
  II – vii – V – VI

Bridge

• F – D♭ (×2)
  II – bVII
• F♯ – F♯sus4/E
  #II – #IIsus4 (bass E)

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Chorus 4

• F – Dm – B♭ – C (×3)
  II – vii – V – VI
• F – Dm – B♭
  II – vii – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• F♯ (#II) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0568, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.