David Bennett Piano | Classical music's favourite chord progression @DavidBennettPiano | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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La Folia is perhaps the most commonly used chord progression in classical music, particularly in baroque era music. But classical composers probably wouldn't even think about La Folia as a chord progression but instead as "ground bass".


SOURCES:
Nicola Benedetti, Introduction to La Folia: youtube.com/watch?v=VVb0zTV4TEc
BBC, La Folia: bbc.com/culture/article/20190726-could-la-folia-be-historys-most-enduring-tune
Uses of Folia in cinema: https://folias.nl/html8a.html
Musica Universalis, La Folia: youtube.com/watch?v=d7Np0vV1-fw


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0:00 La Folía
0:58 the chord progression
1:48 Examples
3:10 Film & TV themes
4:36 Vienna Power House
5:40 Ground bass
6:35 Other stylistic features of La Folía
7:45 Composing my own piece with La Folía