On 2 Oct 2011, at 18:22, Christopher Smith wrote:

> Yes, you are correct, except the Bb7 chord here replaces E7 going to A (or to 
> D/A, the cadential 6/4 that is really an A chord with two suspensions. I 
> imagine the next chord is D7/A, rather than D7 root position?). 

For the French 6th actually calling it E7(b5)/Bb holds a lot more musical 
information.
Obviously for the German 6th this is problematic leading to E7(b5b9)no root - 
which is kludgy.... especially when Bb7 does the trick.

Bb7/Ab here is just functioning as a tritone substitution and not an augmented 
6th which would have Bb as the root not Ab.

Steve P.
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