"Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> "Fiona Abrahami" <fiona@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Much of my harmonic thinking these days seems to revolve around higher
>> tensions, and I rarely build a diatonic chord in a composition without
>> including a ninth and thirteenth (and 11th where appropriate) -
>> non-diatonic intervallic structures are another thing, but even then
I'm
>> into big chords these days.
>>
>> Generally, having decided my melody and bass notes I'm taking the mode
of
>> the moment, re-arranging it as a stack of thirds to get my 13th chord
and
>> then deciding how to voice it - which includes whether it will be
>> rootless and whether to include the 5th and 11th.
>>
>> My question to you guys is simply one of terminology, what is the
>> easiest, most understandable name for a stack of thirds up to the 13th?
>> Is there an existing term? Or do we have to invent one, Septachord,
>> perhaps? Urgh, that sounds like a disease. A Septad? Like triad, that
>> sounds a bit better.
>>
>
> You could borrow from pitch class set theory and call them: "Ordered
> collections of the cardinal number seven", but I suspect that's not
quite
> what you're looking for:-) What's wrong with (as you mentioned above)
> "13th chord"?
>
> And, of course, another issue is voicing since if you stack the tones in
> 2nds rather than 3rds, you'll have a tone cluster.
What I'm looking for is a nice snappy term which conveys the theory I
mention above, i.e. a collection of seven notes stacked in thirds, in the
same way that triad conveys the theory of three notes stacked in thirds.
Thirteenth Chord is too clumsy for colloquial conversation.
Fiona
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