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Does Haydn use secondary dominant chords in Symphony 104?

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Yes, you bet he does. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any music without them from the Baroque onwards. The whole Tonic-Dominant relationship is the axis of harmony in western music. read more

A secondary dominant in tonal music is when there is a dominant-tonic harmonic motion to a chord that is not the tonic key of that movement or section of a movement. As one example, in D major, it would be a cadence from F# major to B minor (the submediant step of D). read more

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