You’re probably right as to older charts Craig. I’ve seen it before as well, but not for a long time now. There might also be some fundamental difference in regions at play here. When I worked in LA, minor 7th chords were written as Cm7 or Cmi7, where as on the East coast it was notated as C-7. Still that way Darcy?
I even did a session once where major 7th chords were notated a C7, but with a French 7 having a small horizontal line thru it. The first run-thru was a major train wreck for me until I listened and figured it out. Your polychord example to me would imply exactly what you state. A C triad in the LH and D in the RH. There would also be the variable of inverting the RH triad. I would most likely not invert the LH triad, but, ya never know. Everything is played in context as to style and sound. *************************** J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > > I guess the conventions are evolving. I have seen loads of charts that > used the horizontal line as alternate bass, not polychord, but these > were mostly older charts from an era when polychords weren't really even > discussed. > > The convention you describe makes sense. However, in my circle of > players, I would have to explain that to most of them. :) > > > Another naive question: If you have > > D > --- > C > > does that imply any particular voicing? Would a piano player normally > play a C triad in the left hand and a D triad the next octave higher in > the right hand? > > > > On 2/15/2016 1:56 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> Craig, >> >> When the two chords are stacked vertically, with a horizontal line >> separating them, they are played as a polychord, e.g. >> >> F# >> — >> C >> >> Chord inversions and chords with an alternate bass are both displayed with a >> diagonal slash, e.g., >> >> F#/C >> >> (Sometimes the alternate bass is subscript but the important variables here >> are the diagonal slash and the lack of vertical stacking.) >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
