Dancing on the Ceiling by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 4

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

• F – Gm7 – Dm7 – Aaug7 – B♭ – E7 – Am7 – A♭m7 – Gm7 – Gdim – Am7 – A♭7 – Gm7 – G♭7 – F – G♭maj7
  I – ii7 – vi7 – III+7 – IV – VII7 – iii7 – biii7 – ii7 – ii° – iii7 – bIII7 – ii7 – bII7 – I – bIImaj7

A Section 2

• F – Gm7 – Dm7 – Aaug7 – B♭ – E7 – Am7 – A♭m7 – Gm7 – Gdim – Am7 – A♭7 – Gm7 – G♭7 – F
  I – ii7 – vi7 – III+7 – IV – VII7 – iii7 – biii7 – ii7 – ii° – iii7 – bIII7 – ii7 – bII7 – I

B Section

• Gm7 – Am7 – B♭ – E♭7 – F – Gm7 – Am7 – Dm7 – Bm7♭5 – B♭ – B♭m7 – Am7 – A♭7 – Gm – G♭9
  ii7 – iii7 – IV – bVII7 – I – ii7 – iii7 – vi7 – #ivø7 – IV – iv7 – iii7 – bIII7 – ii – bII9

C Section

• F – Gm7 – Dm7 – Aaug7 – B♭ – E7 – Am7 – A♭m7 – Gm7 – G♭7 – F
  I – ii7 – vi7 – III+7 – IV – VII7 – iii7 – biii7 – ii7 – bII7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gdim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• B♭m7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Am7.

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.