Re: Quicky about naming a chord

Hans Aberg wrote:
> Tom K. wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> And Piston calls the viio7 an incomplete Vb9 and derives it by 
>> stacking 3rds.  So?
> 
> What's the point here? Beethoven uses it that way VII7 as apart of a V9.
> 
>> I don't understand why you feel the concept of rigidly separated major 
>> and minor scales overrides the practice of composers, but maybe that's 
>> why Hindemith's writings don't seem to be too popular these days, if, 
>> in fact, they ever were.
> 
> You said you regarded dim7 as a part of a major scale with variable 
> scale degrees, whereas Hindemith said its use was when definite 
> minor/major feeling was not desired. So you are apparently doing 
> different kinds of music.
> 
>   Hans Aberg
> 

I've always seen VIIdim7 or V7b9, when they occur in major keys, as a 
borrowing from the parallel minor.


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