Re: Minors and manners

[hippo@xxxxxxxxxx (Hugh Messenger)]

At  8:26 PM 11/9/94 -0500, George W. Miklas wrote:
>FIRST, A MAJOR CHORD DOES NOT HAVE A SEVENTH, SO THERE IS
>NO SEVENTH TO FLAT.

This, and all the other claims that CHORDS DO NOT HAVE SEVENTHS, is bogus.
TRIADS do not have sevenths.  A TRIAD is a 135.  A CHORD can have any notes
you, it or anyone else wants.  Some CHORDS sound more musical than others,
and have been given labels to identify them within a totally arbitrary and
imposed structure.

Also note that there is no way of identifying a chord out of context, ie.
you need to know the key signature, the chord progressions and key
modulations being used preceeding the chord in question to give it a label.

Can we all stop bickering and nit picking now?

>Send flames to HARMONIC@xxxxxxxxxx

Not without knowing who that is.

>
>Peace,
>George Miklas, Bass Harmonicat.

   -- hugh, nobody in particular