In article <slrnd9c5gf.jbo.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-26, Richard Schultz <schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <d73qfv$sp3$1$8300dec7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, David Webber
><dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>: Apparently however, even Albert hasn't noticed that what, a couple
>>: of posts later, he calls a "major dim triad" (root+maj3+dim5)
>>: contains a diminished third - an interval of only two semitones.
>>
>> I'll admit that I didn't read his essay all (or even most) of the way
>> through. Does he explain how one can tell the difference (assuming,
>> as he does, equal temperament) between his chord of root+maj3+aug5
>> and the first inversion of a major chord? (aug5 = min6) Or does he
>> object to the theory (going back, IIRC, to Rameau -- or is it
Couperin?)
>> that a chord and its first inversion are two variations on the same
thing?
>
>Perhaps you might ask him, instead of asking someone who does not really
>understand this subject!
>
>He might even be able to shed some much-needed light on the subject of
>"chords"!
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where you can't tell the "doctors" from the patients
>and "he" is "I"
>
>
>
>>
>> -----
>> Richard Schultz schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
>> Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
>> -----
>> "You go on playing Bach your way, and I'll go on playing him *his*
way."
>> -- Wanda Landowska
But we quite understand the subject. Al objects to all real music
theorists,
referring to Schenker as Hank, Piston as Wally, etc. He knows of their
existence from having heard about them on Usenet (and, in the case of
Piston, he has at least once purused a copy of an obsolete edition), but
he gives no outward signs of having understood them nor, other than
Piston,
having even investigated who they were or are and what their concepts are.
--
Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
To be great, do 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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