Christopher Smith / 2007/07/02 / 11:32 AM wrote: >Well, really, ALL extensions are actually suspensions that we just >decided didn't need to resolve. Having the note of resolution present >at the same time as the suspension just makes it an added tone
I was taught, in classical theory, that suspensions are added 4-3 resolution and/or 2-R resolution. For that, 2 is fine rather than 9th. My point was that these are established before the concept of chord name, and I am trying to preach the consistency of how to spell chord names. I still believe the numeric value should indicates the cutoff point. This is my personal belief I am trying to preach :-) >In >modern jazz the 3rd and 4th often show up in the same chord as a late >addition to tonal harmony, Sorry. I don't believe in this. If you see a voicing of C-E-F-B, it is FMaj7(#11)/C. You can't have 3rd and 4th and still maintain the character of a chord, or say, to feel the gravity of the tonic of the moment if the context is tonal. But if it isn't tonal context, there isn't much reason to spell a chord for improviser, right? >However again, I wonder (the confusion of chord nomenclature being >what it is) if the solution in these modern times might be to just >indicate the chord scale "G Aeolian", or maybe even the parent scale >with the bass note "C Dorian/G bass". I see a lot of chord scale >indications in modern charts these days replacing traditional chord >symbols, so maybe I should just go with the flow... I tell you that his doesn't always work, or should I say it doesn't work most of the time. I have one composition starts with: G Ion on Eb | D Mixo on Eb | A Mixo on Eb ... so on.... This is how it is written (except scale names are placed in parenthesis as if tension and slash is used for bass) and almost all the time the sight leading pianist voices with altered tensions because they hear Eb first. I need to rewrite them with natural 9th and natural 13th tension markings to see if that might change :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
