Q: why does e flat major to g major sound so nice? specifically i'm talking about the last two measures of "bethena" by Scott Joplin. I'm not sure how to classify it so I can't search for information online. The particular voicing in Joplin's work just sounds so crisp and I'm not sure where that's coming from. Is it just the proximity to the g major triad in root position that gives it that effect and nothing else?
A: you could spend your entire life trying to figure out why chords feel the way they do. i think i quarantined myself sometime in 2011 for about 2 weeks trying to find solid answers for things like this. but ultimately the answer to these things is usually what you already knew the first time you heard it