At 6:45 PM -0800 1/11/07, Carl Dershem wrote:
I'm working on cleaning up a chart I recently got, and aomng the
chords is "A +7 -9". Any idea what might be meant by this? The
chart consistently uses "-" for "flat" and "+" for sharp, but ...
"#7"???
I've never seen a sharp 7 chord. Might it be an A7(#9)?
Then notes in the chord (as voiced in the horn parts, concert pitch) are:
F, B, Eb, G, Bb (bottom to top).
I've enjoyed this thread, but it reminds me of why I am not and never
will be a music theorist!! Nor am I likely to play one on TV!
Carl, you spelled the horn parts, but not the bass note, which is a
pretty important piece of information! If there's an A or a C# in
the bass line, it could be some kind of A chord with extensions. But
given just the notes you spelled, and in the absence of a C# or
anything that could be interpreted as a sus3, it ain't no kind of A
chord no way!!
This, by the way, is exactly why I discourage the use of plus and
minus signs. Given the spelling with an F, some kind of Aaug5 is
obviously intended, and the plus is intended to be a dagger, but
that's exactly why it's confusing because the plus could have more
than one meaning. My first reaction was that the plus indicated a
major 7th. It doesn't!
I think I understand Hiro's reasoning, about implying a scale, but
since I'm not a jazzer I do not grok the fullness.
John
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