Re: Quicky about naming a chord

David Webber wrote:

> In 
> general there are good reasons for writing one enharmonic rather than 
> another, even in 12tet.
> 
> The point I was making is that these reasons are *least* compelling for 
> diminished sevenths and augmented triads, which are rather special 
> objects. The point about diminished and augmented chords (especially in 
> 12tet) is that their identity is rather ambiguous.

If the scale is not 12-ET, so there is no enharmonic equivalence, then 
the inversions of an diminished 7th are no longer transpositions of each 
other.

   Hans Aberg