Re: Quicky about naming a chord

"David Webber" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080313@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> And diminished 7ths became *far* more interesting after the ubiquitous

>>> use of 12tet.
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>> Quite on the contrary. For example, Beethoven used them a lot, and he 
>> writes them diatonically, not 12-ET.
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> That does not stand up as a logical contradiction of my statement.  All
it 
> implies is that you believe nothing more interesting than Beethoven has 
> happened in the last couple of centuries.
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Hans, can you point out how Beethoven (or Mozart or Bach) exploited their 
symmetry and multifunctional possibilities - i.e. as a modulatory pivot 
chord?  This seems to me to illustrate Dave's point and really doesn't
occur 
with any frequency much before 1860.

Tom K.