Re: Quicky about naming a chord

"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080313@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Tom K. wrote:
>
>> Hans, can you point out how Beethoven (or Mozart or Bach) exploited the

>> symmetry and multifunctional possibilities of the diminished 7th chord
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>> i.e. as a modulatory pivot chord?  I can't find this with any frequency

>> much before 1860.
>
> I don't know any such examples.
>
Thank you, Hans.

>> OK, now it is a reply to and addressed to you.  So your reponse is?
>
> Do you want to address the issue of using dim7 as a pivot chord in 
> non-12-ET? If so, it is a rather roundabout way to do it.

After Bach's WTC 1 & 2 established the possibility for remote modulations 
through "Well Temperament" (albeit not 12-tone ET), I've always found it 
interesting that this wasn't compositionally exploited until over a
century 
later - the dim. 7th pivot being one of the possible modulatory methods. 
That is why, assuming your definition of "non-12-ET" includes Bach's WT, I

was looking for the pre-Wagner examples you seemed to imply existed.

Tom K.