Talk:This Day Aria, Part 1/@comment-71.205.145.27-20120422192456/@comment-199.79.170.216-20120422201217

Sadly, I analyzed the chord structures and that isn't true. Mr. Ingram DOES use some very chromatic harmony which could be misinterpreted as a deceptive cadence. Since the song is in D-flat, a deceptive cadence would be A-flat going to b-flat minor- that never happens throughout the entire thing. Take Chrysalis's first verse, for example. The chord structure is: D-flat - D - D-flat - C-flat - c-flat minor - G-flat - c-flat minor - G-flat - b-double-flat minor - d-flat minor. While very striking, and while ending on a minor chord in a verse that started major, it is not a deceptive cadence, but very chromatic harmony - it actually sounds like a progression like that could have been used in the late 1800s by composers like Mahler or Wolf.

...I do hope I'm not overanalyzing- I love the song as much as the other thousands who listened to it. Ingram composed a gem here.