[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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However, my point is that WHY can't y'all agree on ONE name for each chord?
Why several names, regardless of your "musical point of view?" There are a
lot more part time old geezer musicians like me than ALL of the musicians in
ALL of the orchestras in the world, and we buy and play a lot of music. Not
symphonies, that is certain, but LIVE music.
Just hoping somehow, some way, the folks who arrange and publish and sell
arrangements for the more mundane music could make life on the stage a lot easier
if they could manage to AGREE on ONE name for ONE chord.
[snip]
For the same reason that we can't agree on one name for that black key
on the piano which sits between F and G. Sometimes it needs to be
called F-sharp and other times it needs to be called G-flat.
I suppose that an international symposium on the simplification of chord
names could be organized. We could take it a step further and simply
write all the songs in the key of C, which would further make life
easier for part time musicians.
Your request for simplification is one that many people in the musical
world ask quite often -- even if you got everybody on this Finale list
to agree to some sort of "Unified Chord Spelling Treaty," there are
simply too many musicians who aren't part of this list who wouldn't
participate in that treaty, so you'd still be stuck having to figure out
the same stuff you have to figure out now.
To say nothing about the billions of tons of music which is already in
print and can't be "recalled for a regrooving" to bring it into line
with any new "Unified Chord Theory" system of nomenclature.
Just too impractical, even if people wanted to go along with it -- which
I doubt if there could ever be agreement.
--
David H. Bailey
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