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Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:19:20 -0500

Hi Kevin,

> it is possible for the 7th to be a suspension, for example the inganno 
> interruption (found in fugues and the like) produces a suspended seventh that 
> usually resolves to a 6th.

Indeed, most [classical] music theory texts include entire sections of chapters 
devoted to this suspension, which arose (if I recall correctly) in species 
counterpoint and was used extensively through the Renaissance and Baroque and 
well into to the Classical period.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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