If you've heard much Baroque music, you've almost certainly encountered the Picardy third - a major chord that is used at the very end of an otherwise minor-key piece. In some ways, the practice can seem curious and a bit of a dated cliche to many today, but it's possible to use the idea with subtlety and make it work in a modern context. In this video post, I show a typical Baroque example from a Bach fugue, and then look at a passage from the popular jazz standard, "Alone Together".

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