Dominant seven going to III

[tier]

Hi: Willie:

I know the name "deceptive cadence" for V7 going to vi.

Question: is there a cadence-type name for V7 - III
This BRIGHT/startling Dominant to THREE chord progression?
I found this progression in my fakebook "tears in heaven" so I am asking.

Is there one of your song-lessons using V7 to III.
Is there a name for this cadence in musical theory?

Thanks for your time.
Tier.

[place]

Hey Tier,
A deceptive cadence is when the V chord resolves to anything other that the tonic. The deal with the iii chord is that it is so close to the I that sometimes the ear actually hears the tonic as the root even though it's not there. Remember, the iii chord (in major) is just a rootless Imaj7 and so makes more of a substitute tonic rather than a deceptive cadence. This is similar to the ii chord replacing or substituting for the IV.

You're exactly right about the vi chord, it is the most common irregular resolution. One of the biggies that we studied in school was in J.S. Bach's organ fugue where he goes to the bII instead of I. In classical theory this is called a Neopolitan Sixth chord when the bII is in first inversion.

Good question!

[tier]

Thank you Mark... good to know that Dominants can "deceive" to many different chords.

Now that I look at my song today... I see that if I went one chord further, it would indeed be a deceptive cadence, the V7-vi variety.

My V7 to III..... went on to a vi chord.

SO...... that III was just a passing chord (its secondary dominant)...

V7 ------ (III)------------- to vi (really just V7 to vi)
C7 ------- (A triad) ------ to d minor triad

So now I don't have to worry about V7 going to III (had I included that very next chord)

Very deceptive... indeed! LOL

Tier