Re: Chord Function?

On Jul 17, 11:47 am, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
<bornfeldm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Danny Schorr wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:29:46 -0700, "Chickenhead"
> > <kuNOrtSPAMshapTHANK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> Was it Tommy Tedesco who said "no one ever got paid for playing
theories?"
>
> >> I know I never have.
>
> > Tell it to Leonard Bernstein.
>
> > Danny
>
>         I walked over to Bernstein's gravesite (a short walk from my
home) and
> asked.  Sadly, no answer came.
>         This is a bit of a silly argument.  Maybe someone can help me
out with
> the source of the quote (I'm thinking it may have been Miles Davis) who
> said something to the effect of "study and learn all your theory, then
> forget about it and just blow".
>         I don't think this is a put down of theory at all.  I think it
means
> that a musician has to internalize it.  Perhaps in a through-composed
> piece there may be more conscious considerations of theory than there is
> for a jazz musician improvising on the spot.  But if I had to guess,
> Bernstein wasn't thinking about temperament, scale forms, or rhythmic
> theory when he wrote "West Side Story" any more than I have to think
> about the placement of my tongue in my mouth when I have to pronounce
> the letter "t".
>         IOW, I think you're arguing about nothing but semantics.
>
> Steve
>
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The quote was attributed to Bird who had taken more liberties in it's
utterance. Yes and true, a 't' can be easily misunderstood for a 'd',
at least inside the mouth where the tongue dwells. The theory would
adjust for that (eventually).

-TD