Nigel, I had described this in another reply on this topic. It is possible to interpret C2 as either C D G (Cadd2omit3) or as C D E G (Cadd2). I completely believe you that you have never had trouble with it, as there are regional conventions that everyone in a given region seems to understand (see my comments about the NYC crowd.) Yet, around here C2 seems to be played in the first definition I gave. As a result, I try to be impossible to misinterpret in my symbols, as I never know where they are going to be played.
----- Original Message ----- From: Nigel Hanley <i...@nigelhanley.com> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:28 am Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: Jazz chord names To: finale@shsu.edu > What are those two different definitions? > > C2 seems quite clear to me, as a commercial arranger. > > I have never had a problem with this nomenclature in Australia. > Commercial charts here are written to be played, on sight, > without rehearsal, and such chord terminology has yet, in my > twenty five years of arranging, to cause a misunderstanding. > > Nigel Hanley > > > On 28/01/2011, at 12:21 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > > > On Thu Jan 27, at ThursdayJan 27 1:41 AM, Nigel Hanley wrote: > > > >> I no longer use Cadd2 but simply C2. I'd like to > use G4 instead of Gsus4, but feel that's going a bit far. > > > > > > There was a now-dead convention in the 70s for naming a stack > of 4ths, like G C F from the bottom up, as G4, so I wouldn't > care to use that in a chart I was sending off. Likewise, C2 has > at least two different definitions these days, so I would make > sure I defined it if I was going to be using it. > > > > Christopher > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
