Re: Quicky about naming a chord

Tom K. wrote:

>> but how is the dim7 fit into a major key, as you have written above?
> 
> You're kidding, right?
> The fully diminished 7th has been freely employed in the major mode
since 
> the Baroque.  See, for example Prelude #1 in C major, WTC1, measure 14, 
> where Bach writes a fully diminished viio4/3 resolving to a (major) I in
bar 
> 15; or the fully diminished viio7/V in measures 22 and 28;  or the Bb
major 
> viio7-I in bar 25 of Schubert's Erlkonig.

Hindemith calls those alterations, which he says is the use of another 
scale, and they introduce elements of minor into major or vice versa, 
used when a definite feeling of major or minor is not desired.

   Hans Aberg