John Bell wrote: > >It may look like that to you; I don't dispute that. But to > >musicians who are conversant with mid to late 20th Century American > >popular music and jazz conventions, this is unquestionably > >recognized as a 69 chord. > > Many thanks to everyone who has responded. It seems there are as many > different chords as there are recordings of this piece. The one I was > addressing was the 1940 Glenn Miller version. What to call the chord > was not the issue -- I was concerned with the the actual trombone > notes. In fact they are Db, F, Bb, Cb, Eb, a five-part chord, so a > saxophone is also involved. I'd call that Db13. Some might say it > should be Db13(9). > > Has anyone else written a song about their phone number?
Having listened to the recording, I'd dispute that Bb. Sounded to me like an Eb9+5 (so the Cb, or B, is right) with the Db on the bottom. True, the chord doesn't need to be called anything, but it sounded so clearly "dominant" in the key of Ab that that nomenclature seems legit to me. Steve Allen used to improvise tunes using people's phone numbers as scale tones. Does that count? Jon _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
