Dinah by Harry Akst

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 12 · 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

• G – G/B – B♭dim7 – Am7 – D7 – G – B♭dim7 – Am7 – D7
  I – I⁶ – biii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – biii°7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• G – G/B – B♭dim7 – Am7 – D7 – G – Cm – G – B7
  I – I⁶ – biii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – iv – I – III7

Bridge

• Em – Em/D♯ – Em/D – Em/C♯ – Em – A7 – Am7 – D7
  vi – vi (bass D♯) – vi (bass D) – vi (bass C♯) – vi – II7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

• G – G/B – B♭dim7 – Am7 – D7 – G – B♭dim7
  I – I⁶ – biii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – biii°7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.

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.