Re: Quicky about naming a chord

"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080313@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> So then it's not 12-ET.

Well the pianist I play with plays 12tet  (and he plays more than one note

at once which i don't).

>>>> And diminished 7ths became *far* more interesting after the
ubiquitous 
>>>> use of 12tet.
>>
>>> Quite on the contrary. For example, Beethoven used them a lot, and he 
>>> writes them diatonically, not 12-ET.
>>
>> 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.
>
> All it means you wrongly believe dim7 is tied to 12-ET.

Not at all.  "More interesting" doesn't mean the same as "tied to".   Nor 
indeed does "after the ubiquitous use of" mean "in".

Dave
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