Christopher Smith / 07.9.27 / 6:42 PM wrote: >Speaking of convention, Hiro, I know you went through the whole >Boston scene and I have a question about analysis over there. When >showing a descending-perfect-fifth resolution of a dominant, an >upward curving arrow from the dominant to the resolution is standard >practice. Do the schools you learned and taught at allow the arrow >when it is a resolution of a diminished chord up a semitone, like >C#dim7 to Dm7 in the key of C? In my classical training, we were told >to call those "inc. V7(b9)/II" or incomplete V7(b9) of two, since >they have all the same important functional notes as A7(b9). I would >consider that to be a tonicisation, and thus arrowable, but I don't >think the standard analysis allows the arrow except for actual >dominant chord resolutions. I would LOVE to be able to put arrows on >all those diminished chords in my jazz theory classes! But I fear >that the students would be marked wrong if they did it at their next >school, so I haven't been doing that.
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. 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. Thanks for the suggestion of using Text Exp. That was how I used to do but I switched to DTP application our of frustration, but that was when Finale still didn't have auto-placement. I shall try it again. Regarding the standard, I wish if I were world famous to tell everyone what I say becomes the standard! \(^o^)/ -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
