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Classical music's favourite chord progression

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La Folia is perhaps the most commonly used chord progression in classical music, particularly in baroque era music. But classical composers probably wouldn't even think about La Folia as a chord progression but instead as "ground bass".


SOURCES:
Nicola Benedetti, Introduction to La Folia:    • Discover Baroque Music: Introduction ...  
BBC, La Folia: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
Uses of Folia in cinema: https://folias.nl/html8a.html
Musica Universalis, La Folia:    • Principles of Music: The "La Folía" P...  


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0:00 La Folía
0:58 the chord progression
1:48 Examples
3:10 Film & TV themes
4:36 Vienna Power House
5:40 Ground bass
6:35 Other stylistic features of La Folía
7:45 Composing my own piece with La Folía

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