Toyland by Victor Herbert & Glen MacDonough

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → A 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

• F6 – Fmaj7 – Am7 – D7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fdim7 – Fmaj7
  I6 – Imaj7 – iii7 – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – i°7 – Imaj7

B Section

• B♭maj7 – B♭m6 – Am7 – D7 – Gmaj7(no3) – G7 – Gm7 – C7
  IVmaj7 – iv6 – iii7 – VI7 – IImaj7(no3) – II7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

C Section

• B♭maj7 – B♭m6 – D7 – Gmaj7(no3) – G7 – Gm7 – C7 – D7 – Gm7 – D♭9 – C7♭9 – F6
  IVmaj7 – iv6 – VI7 – IImaj7(no3) – II7 – ii7 – V7 – VI7 – ii7 – bVI9 – V7b9 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• C7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm7.

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.
• 2 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.