In article <slrndfdfg5.2pq.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-08-07, Joey Goldstein <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Too much to explain in a usenet post.
>> Try working through a few legit harmony (Piston, Delamont, Aldwell &
>> Schacter, Kostka, etc.) books and maybe a few jazz harmony books
>> (Nettles & Graff, Jaffe, etc.) and I'm sure it will come together for
you.
>
>Try getting your advice from someone who knows how to read music, instead
>of getting it from a note-blind Frustrated Guitarist.
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where the Wonderful residents do not understand anything *relevant*
>
>
>>
>> Doc wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a lifelong trumpet player, and understand chord construction and
certain
>>> elements of chord movement but a topic that has long remained somewhat
fuzzy
>>> to me is the topic of chord "function".
>>>
>>> I get the idea of certain strong, obvious movements like I - IV - V -
I
>>> or ii - V - I but then when topics like what to name a particular
chord
>>> ("depends on its function") or secondary dominants - "such and such
>>> functions as a V of ii" or whatever comes up, I've never heard an
>>> explanation that really allows me to wrap my brain around it.
>>>
>>> Any insight will be appreciated.
>>
>
>For starters, forget about secondary dominants--pure nonsense. But what
>else in Wonderland?
>
Al, how would you know anything about secondary dominants? Where's
your music? Where's the analysis of Erlkoenig you promised the newsgroups
12 years ago but refused to provide because you don't read music?
--
Matthew H. Fields http://www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
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