> > Hey, now there's a thought! How about a facility for typesetting
classical
> > analysis (such as: C#m: Im V[6 4] Im with the 6 stacked on top of the
> > four--look at Walter Piston's *Harmony* for copious examples)? >-)
>
> Aha! I've got a book that tries to teach jazz this way...it's a
> disaster.
Not suprised... ;-)
> But I guess this is where the inversion stuff really comes
> into its own. Can this chord-naming method handle complicated
> harmonies, or just more simple major/minor harmonies?
As far as I know, it can handle seventh chords, but much further than that
the notation gets messy (think four numbers next to your roman numeral for
9th chords ;-). I think the most jazz-like stuff that Piston examined was
by Wagner (he doesn't even attempt to use it seriously for Schoenberg and
the like)...
-- Shamus
