Moonlight in Vermont by Frank Sinatra

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 33 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:00)

• D♭6/A♭ – A♭7♭9 – D♭maj7 – A♭7♭9 – D♭
  I6 (bass A♭) – V7b9 – Imaj7 – V7b9 – I

Part 2 (0:14)

• D♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭7 – D♭ – B♭m – D♭9 – E♭m7
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V7 – I – vi – I9 – ii7

Part 3 (0:29)

• A♭7 – D♭ – E♭m9 – D7♭9 – D♭add9 – B♭m – E♭m7 – D7 – D♭maj7
  V7 – I – ii9 – #I7b9 – Iadd9 – vi – ii7 – #I7 – Imaj7

Part 4 (0:43)

• B♭m7 – C♭9 – D♭/A♭ – A♭7 – D♭ – Gm7
  vi7 – bVII9 – I⁶₄ – V7 – I – #iv7

Part 5 (0:58)

• C7 – Fmaj7 – E9 – Gm7 – C7♯9 – Fmaj7 – A♭m7
  VII7 – IIImaj7 – #II9 – #iv7 – VII7#9 – IIImaj7 – v7

Part 6 (1:12)

• D♭7 – G♭maj7 – F9 – A♭m7 – D♭7 – G♭maj7 – A♭aug7 – D♭maj7
  I7 – IVmaj7 – III9 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – V+7 – Imaj7

Part 7 (1:27)

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – B♭m7 – C♭9 – E♭m7
  vi7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – bVII9 – ii7

Part 8 (1:41)

• A♭7 – D♭maj7 – D♭maj7/A♭ – A♭13 – D♭13 – B♭m7 – E♭m9 – A♭9 – D♭13
  V7 – Imaj7 – Imaj⁴₃ – V13 – I13 – vi7 – ii9 – V9 – I13

Part 9 (1:55)

• B♭m7 – C♭9 – E♭m7 – A♭7 – D♭ – Gm7
  vi7 – bVII9 – ii7 – V7 – I – #iv7

Part 10 (2:10)

• C7 – Fmaj7 – E9 – Gm7 – C7 – Fmaj7 – A♭m7
  VII7 – IIImaj7 – #II9 – #iv7 – VII7 – IIImaj7 – v7

Part 11 (2:24)

• D♭7 – G♭maj7 – F9 – A♭m7 – D♭9 – G♭maj7 – A♭aug7
  I7 – IVmaj7 – III9 – v7 – I9 – IVmaj7 – V+7

Part 12 (2:39)

• D♭13 – E♭m7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – B♭m7 – C♭9
  I13 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – bVII9

Part 13 (2:54)

• E♭m7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – E♭m – A♭7 – D♭
  ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii – V7 – I

Part 14 (3:09)

• A♭9 – E♭7 – A♭7♯9 – D♭maj9
  V9 – II7 – V7#9 – Imaj9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• C♭9 (bVII9) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• A♭m7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• A♭aug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• A♭7♯9 (V7#9) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• D♭9 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭maj7.
• D♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭maj7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Come Fly With Me), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Come Fly With Me), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 10 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.