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

"LJS" <ljschenck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 28, 12:41 pm, "Steve Latham" <llat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Joey Goldstein" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Meanwhile, did someone up-thread say that Piston used upper case RN?
>> > Did he write out chord quality too? Or was the student expected to
>> > interpret "II" as being a minor chord based on the active key?
>>
>> Schoenberg used non-case sensitive numerals. One is expected to know
the
>> quality in the key. Alterations (like minor iv in Major) have to be
>> appended.
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> Thanks for the sup****t Steve.

Actually, I was sup****ting Joey's assertion that Piston most likely uses 
UC/LC.

> Yes Schoenberg would probably have used the UC/RN similar to Piston.

He does.

I
> would think that this would have been the norm when he was still
> stretching the limits of functional chromaticism and without looking
> up the time line, Schoenberg may have gotten that from Piston or they
> both may have gotten it from the same source.

Umm, Schoenberg wrote his in 1910, Piston in 1941.

LSL