Why block consisting of "re" and "fa" notes is classified as chord V?
I am reading this paper: Toward a Musical Analysis of World Music
On page 4 there is this statement:
All of the songs are syllabic and are subject to clear harmony
(prototype degrees [I, V, IV] and “strong” progressions [Schoenberg
1954]): Song 1 has one chord (as a tonic [I]); song 3, I–V– I ; song
5, I–IV–V–I .
And on page 6 there is a picture visualising the statement.
So, my questions is: How one can see that "blocks" of notes, shown in pink rectangles belong to a claimed chord?
For example, in the song 3, the second block consists of "re" and "fa" notes, why is that chord V? Should chord 5 consist of "sol" "si" and "re" notes?
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With 2 notes a minor third apart, there are many possibilities in harmony. Maybe you think it cannot be the V because of the "Fa" but "Fa" is the 7th of the V chord. Here you have the 5th and the 7th of the V chord (bear in mind the V has a minor 7th). They could have written V7, I did not read the whole thing but generally when you harmonize a melody you look at 7th chords.
That is to say the chord will work over the melody as long as the notes on the strong beats (important) are in the 4 notes of a 7th chord. It does not matter if you don't play it a 7th chord and play a triad instead, the gist of it is that it will sound good over it.
It could have been harmonized with a "re" minor as well (ii) or a "si" diminished (viiº) but I think they are trying to stick to I, IV, V. That's all.
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