In article <slrnd8iml3.9og.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-17, Matthew Fields <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <42892FF2.E1CE707B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Joey Goldstein <joegoldATsympaticoDOTca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>J R Laredo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Every single one of my theory teachers explained that tone to me and
all in
>>>> my cl*****. I think the real question is why yours did not.
>>>
>>>I'm sure they did.
>>>Albert's just got some sort of learning disabilty I guess.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Joey Goldstein
>>>http://www.joeygoldstein.com
>>>joegold AT sympatico DOT ca
>>
>> We here on Usenet are the only music teachers Al has ever had.
>> He's been convinced that as a Really Smart Engineer [tm] he has always
>> had no need of a teacher at anything.
>>
>>
>Well then, "doctor," why don't *you* explain, *IN A RATIONAL MANNER*, the
>presence of this tone in a chord, *WITHOUT* using Ancient tertiary chord
>construction.
>
>Repeat: *WITHOUT* using this irrelevant chord construction method.
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where "doctors" do not know how to construct chords
>except perhaps by an irrelevant Ancient method
>
Of course, Al. The 7th in dominant 7th chords originates in the 7th
chord built on degree V, where it first appeared as a melodic passing
tone.
That's the reason for the presense of that tone in that chord,
and it has nothing to do with any method of chord construction at all.
Now, I'm aware that you have a lot of trouble understanding intervals
and intervalic concepts like stacks of thirds, Al, but they're really
rudimentary to music. If you'd only bother exposing yourself to some
actual music, this would begin to become clear to you.
I also happen to know that engineers who want to make something useful
have to be able to comply with standards and collaborate with each other
felicitously--I do this many hours per day myself. So I'm afraid I really
am skeptical of your claims of having been an engineer, too, Al.
--
Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
To be great, do things better and better. Don't wait for talent: no such
thing.
Brights have a naturalistic world-view. http://www.the-brights.net/
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