[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:somewhere-over-the-rainbow":3},"title: Somewhere Over the Rainbow\naka: Over the Rainbow\nsubtitle: Ballad or samba\ncomposer: Harold Arlen\nstyle: Ballad\nkey: Eb\nform: AABA, 32 bars\nrecording: Ella Fitzgerald; Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book; Verve; 1961\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; Eb\n# recording: recorded 1960-08-01 to 1961-01-14 in Hollywood, arranged and conducted by Billy May; chart (Colorado Cookbook) follows no named version; songbook standard: no single instrumental reading is the jazz reference and the Judy Garland film\u002FDecca side (1939) is the pop original, so Ella's Arlen Song Book reading is taken as the canonical jazz vocal; Verve MG V-4046-2; sources: Wikipedia (Over the Rainbow, the Song Book album)\n\n# bar | chord | scale\n\nsection: A1\n1 | Am7b5   # iiø7 of G minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n1 | D7b9    # V7\u002Fiii in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n2 | Gm7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n2 | A7b5    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to AbMaj7\n3 | AbMaj7  # the A7b5 before it makes Ab the key of the moment: the 4th is in the key\n3 | Am7b5   # iiø7 of G minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n3 | D7b9    # V7\u002Fiii in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n4 | Gm7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n4 | C7b9    # V7\u002Fii in Eb: the b13 is in the key, the b9 from the symbol\n5 | Fm7     # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n5 | Abm7    # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n6 | Gm7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n6 | C7b9    # V7\u002Fii in Eb: the b13 is in the key, the b9 from the symbol\n7 | Fm7     # ii of the ii–V to Eb\n7 | Bb7b9   # V7 of Eb: the b9 from the symbol\n8 | EbMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n8 | Fm7     # ii of Bb7b9: Dorian\n8 | Bb7b9   # V7\u002FI in Eb: the b9 from the symbol\n\nsection: A2\ncopy: A1\n\nsection: B\n1 | EbMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2 | Fm7     # ii of Bb7b9: Dorian\n2 | Bb7b9   # V7\u002FI in Eb: the b9 from the symbol\n3 | Gm7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n3 | C7b9    # V7\u002Fii in Eb: the b13 is in the key, the b9 from the symbol\n4 | Fm7     # ii of the ii–V to Eb\n4 | Bb7b9   # V7 of Eb: the b9 from the symbol\n5 | EbMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6 | Am7b5   # iiø7 of G minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n6 | D7b9    # V7\u002Fiii in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n7 | Gm7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n7 | C9      # V7\u002Fii in Eb: the b13 is in the key\n8 | Fm7     # ii of Bb7b9: Dorian\n8 | Bb7b9   # V7\u002FI in Eb: the b9 from the symbol\n\nsection: A3\ncopy: A1\n",1793484803406]