In article <dc9baj$1q4$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>The Tortoise:
>
> Excuse me for being a little slow, but I'm having a lot of trouble
> with what must certainly be a very simple theoretical concept.
>
> Can anyone tell me what a "rootless" chord is?
>
>The Hatter:
>
> Rootlessness is a red herring that stems from theoretical ignorance.
>
>The Tortoise:
>
> I just love herring, but I am unfamiliar with the red species.
Should
> I drink Pinot Rouge with it?
>
>Alice:
>
> This herring business is certainly fishy and stems from your
> ignorance of music theory! Even if you *are* a Doctor--of
> Haberdashery (DBS.HbrD). So listen carefully, Doctor, but keep this
> under your Hat:
>
> A rootless chord is one in which a chord tone seeks to progress,
> by virtue of a chromatic semi-tone motion in context, to another
tone
> which is not a component tone of a chord in a P5 relation****p to the
> chord which possesses this particular melodic tendency. It is called
> a "rootless" chord because its constructional root-tone cannot be
> assigned a location in the tonal structure, by virtue of this
contrary
> melodic tendency which is induced by the chromatic motion.
>
> Everyone knows. ......Oops, I mean *no one* knows that.
>
>The Tortoise:
>
> Alice, you are certainly a mean-spirited Little Girl. I had my heart
> set on red herring for dinner.
>
>The King:
>
> I love herring too, whether red, white, or blue.
>
>The Queen:
>
> I think that it stinks!
>
>The Fish:
>
> I agree with you, your Majestiness. It has an absolutely horrid
smell;
> I can't imagine why anyone would want to smell it, much less eat it!
>
>The Music Teacher:
>
> I'm so confused. Can anyone tell me what a triad is?
>
>
>-----------------------------
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where relevance is irrelevant
>(15)
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