On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:47 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
When I was in school, I didn't see any established explanation of
diminished chord functions that made sense to me, but anyway, what you
described is known (to me :-) as Schoenberg's harmony analysis and,
while it partially make sense, I don't entirely agree. In jazz,
diminished chord has 7th, which creates two set of tritones, that
produces 4 directions if you want to make a traditional resolution.
Yup, but depending on WHICH one of the four it resolves to up a
semitone, you call it by that function.
Then if you look at them, diminished chords' tritone aren't really
moving as expected, i.e., I dim7 and V dim7 are followed by same
root in
the tonal context. There are many reasons we can't call them
theoretical 'resolution'. They are just psychological gravity, so, no
arrows, at least to me.
No, I wouldn't want to put an arrow on them unless they resolved UP
by a semitone to the next root.
The common-tone diminished and the one that resolves DOWN by a
semitone to a minor chord (usually a IIm7) I wouldn't put an arrow on.
I was just wondering if you knew whether arrows EVER went on
diminished chords. I guess not.
Christopher
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