At 08:37 -0700 29/04/02, Harold Owen wrote: > >In pop music such a chord is simply indicated as Bb - unless, as >some have mentioned, it is really part of a C7 complex (C11 with 9th >added), and for me the best way to indicate it is Bb/C. How it comes >to pop music is an interesting question. It could be that the Bb is >borrowed from the blues, or from modal folk tunes, or even from the >plagal harmonic moves in gospel music. > >I'd like to see someone research this. > >Hal
To me it is a beautiful oneness of the dominant and subdominant functions in one single chord, with the enphasis on the former, used with the unresolved fourth. I would guess it came to pop music through the use, in jazz, of the dominant note as pedal under the alternating harmonies of the I and II degrees of the major mode (Imaj7, IIm7). Haroldo Mauro Jr. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
