Ten Cents a Dance by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 3

Form: 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

• E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭7 – A♭ – Dm7 – G7
  I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – II7 – V7 – I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I7 – IV – vii7 – III7

B Section

• C7♭9 – Fm – C7♭9 – Fm7 – D7 – Gm – C7♭9 – F7 – B♭7
  VI7b9 – ii – VI7b9 – ii7 – VII7 – iii – VI7b9 – II7 – V7

C Section

• E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭7 – A♭ – Dm7 – G7 – C7♭9 – Fm7♭5 – E♭ – Gaug7 – A♭maj7 – E♭7♭5/A – B♭13 – E♭
  I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I7 – IV – vii7 – III7 – VI7b9 – iiø7 – I – III+7 – IVmaj7 – I7♭5 (bass A) – V13 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.
• C7♭9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.
• D7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Gm.

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.