[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:the-song-is-you":3},"title: The Song Is You\ncomposer: Jerome Kern\nstyle: Medium up\nkey: C\nform: AABA, 64 bars\nrecording: Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker; Clef; 1954\nyoutube: WECmIiUVA9E\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; C\n# recording: recorded 1952-12-30, Fulton Recording, NYC; Parker, Hank Jones, Teddy Kotick, Max Roach; master 1118-3; songbook standard → Parker's quartet version, the jazz reference (jazzstandards.com: \"epitomized by Charlie Parker's burning 1952 performance\"); first LP Clef MGC-157 (10\", 1954), single Clef 89144 (1955, mistitled \"I Hear Music\"), later Verve MGV-8005 Now's the Time; sources: jazzdisco.org, jazzstandards.com; video: \"Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group\", Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (℗ 1953), 2:57, the same master\n# book: Med.-Up Swing\n# the book's letters: A, B (the second A), C (the bridge), D (the last A)\n\n# bar | chord\n\nsection: A\n# area: C major (A 1 – B 15)\n1  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2  | Ebdim7  # passing diminished: D7♭9 without its D, the G7's dominant (Dm7 its ii)\n3  | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n4  | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n5  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6  | A7      # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n7  | Dm7     # ii of G7: Dorian\n8  | G7      # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n9  | Em7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n# alt: bar 9 (CMaj7) for Em7\n10 | A7      # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n11 | Dm7     # ii of G7: Dorian\n12 | G7      # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n13 | Fm7     # ii of Bb7: Dorian\n# alt: bar 13 (E7b9) for Fm7\n14 | Bb7     # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n# alt: bar 14 (Am7) for Bb7\n15 | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n# alt: bar 15 (Em7 A7) for Dm7\n16 | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n# alt: bar 16 (Dm7 G7) for G7\n\nsection: B\n1  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2  | Ebdim7  # passing diminished: D7♭9 without its D, the G7's dominant (Dm7 its ii)\n3  | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n4  | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n5  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6  | A7      # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n7  | Dm7     # ii of G7: Dorian\n8  | G7      # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n9  | Em7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n# alt: bar 9 (CMaj7) for Em7\n10 | A7      # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n11 | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n12 | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n13 | C6      # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n# alt: bar 14 (F7)\n15 | C6\n# area: E major (B 16 – C 15)\n16 | F#m7b5  # iiø7 of E: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n16 | B7      # V7 of E: natural tensions\n\nsection: C\nbars: 16\n1  | EMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n3  | F#m7    # ii of the ii–V to E\n4  | B7      # V7 of E: natural tensions\n5  | EMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n7  | A#m7b5  # iiø7 of G# minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n8  | D#7     # V7\u002Fiii in E: b9 and b13 are in the key\n9  | G#m     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n11 | C#9     # extended dominant: each one falls a fifth into the next: natural tensions\n13 | F#13    # V7 of V7: the dominant of the dominant: natural tensions\n# alt: bar 14 (C9)\n15 | B13     # V7 in E, not resolving: natural tensions\n\nsection: D\nbars: 16\n# area: C major (D 1–13)\n1  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2  | Ebdim7  # passing diminished: D7♭9 without its D, the G7's dominant (Dm7 its ii)\n3  | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n4  | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n5  | CMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6  | Gm7     # ii of the ii–V to F\n6  | C7      # V7\u002FIV in C: natural tensions\n7  | F6      # the C7 before it makes F the key of the moment: the 4th is in the key\n8  | Bb9     # ♭VII7 from the parallel minor: Lydian Dominant\n9  | Em7     # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n# alt: bar 9 (CMaj7) for Em7\n10 | A7      # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n11 | Dm7     # ii of the ii–V to C\n12 | G7      # V7 of C: natural tensions\n13 | C6      # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n# alt (optional): bars 14–16 (F7 | C6 | Dm7 G7), the turnaround\n",1793484803903]