Re: What's the relation****p between scales and chords?

LJS wrote:
> On Feb 26, 5:26 pm, Joey Goldstein <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Tom K. wrote:
>>
>>> Using II for supertonic hasn't been done for nearly forty years.
>> On the contrary. Most jazz harmony books use upper case Roman numerals
>> for all chords.
>>
>> We don't write simply "ii" or "ii7". We write "IIm" and/or "IIm7".
>>
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>> Joey Goldstein
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> 
> the only major book that I know of that uses UC/RN has been the Piston
> Harmoy text. I am sure that there are others, but I have not run
> across any books in mainstream use that does not use UC/LC with the
> delimiters. I have also not run across the use of RM/maj-min etc.
> either. All the texts that I have seen use the standard UC/LC RN
> notation in the standard manner.
> 
> In my quest to try to keep current, an you give some examples of who
> is turning back the clock to use the older system based on Piston? I
> know you stated Jazz theory books, but in the cl***** that I have
> taken, there was no such use of this in these cl***** either. I don't
> know why anyone would, so if there is an advantage to reverting to
> this additional separation from standard theory notation, please give
> us some details.
> LJS

The Chord Scale Theory And Jazz Harmony, by Nettles and Graff.
Modern Harmonic Progression, by Allen Michalek.
The harmony dept. at Berklee.
Etc.



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