Re: Chord Function?

Tom K. wrote:

> 
> "Danny Schorr" <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:06:09 GMT, "Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"Danny Schorr" <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>news:fhrn74pdafq1iqvg60qoq36lsqi2fq33s4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>
>>>> In theory texts, the carat (^) is usually placed above the number,
but
>>>> since that's not possible on Usenet, we place it before.
>>>
>>>
>>>That's a convention that we can thank Matt Fields for as far as I can
>>>recall - he was doing that on this newsgroup when others weren't.
>>
>> Why am I not suprised? Damn - I miss Matt. I wish he would grace us all
>> with his presence again.
>>>
>>>
>>>As far as I can
>>>> tell, Robert Gauldin used it first in his book "Harmonic Practice in
>>>> Tonal
>>>> Music".
>>>
>>>No, it's been around way longer than that. I learned it in college
years
>>>ago. It was common practice as far as I can tell - though I'd have to
dig
>>>to
>>>find examples.
>>
>>
>> Interesting. If you do come across earlier usage, let me know. But
don't
>> go
>> out of your way...if you happen to come across something...
> 
> I checked and it's not in an early (pre 1960) edition of Piston.  He
> actually spelled out "sixth scale degree" for ^6 every time!

It was first widely adopted by Schenkerians (following Schenker's own
usage), and spread from there.  So, while it pre-dates Piston, it wasn't
necessarily a notation that Piston was himself familiar with. 

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