Green Day, “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (2005). “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day ( Example 6) exhibits both of the tendencies discussed above: motion from IV–iv–I and a sense of nostalgia and sentimentality in the lyrics.Įxample 6. Indeed, even in pop music, musicians typically use this progression in conjunction with lyrics that suggest sentimentality. Both authors consider this gesture to invoke a sense of nostalgia and sentimentality. Kent Williams and Frank Lehman as a “plagal sigh” in Golden Era American popular song and Classic Hollywood film scores, respectively. The “plagal sigh” schema, IV–iv–I, includes the scale-degree voice-leading la–le–sol (\hat) creates an especially strong pull to the tonic.Many songs simply use the two-chord vamp I–IV (very common in R&B and Soul music).
Blues-based schemas all include some kind of plagal motion.
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