Re: Chords and what they mean

[Blöchl Bernhard]

Thank you for the pointer to the two programs I never have heard of 
before. Off Topic but very interesting.

As you mentioned Rameau I will add, that the idea of "chord inversion" 
goes back to Lippius from Leipzig in Germany "trias harmonica" from 1609 
and is not original to Rameau as often stated. Possibly there were 
connections? Bit I never found any evidence for a connection 
Bach-Rameau?

I think jazz with chords providing a sense of closure, are closer to 
Rameau than to Bach. (The later has a more tonal than chordal approach - 
my personal interpretation.)

One of my idea is, that the modal jazz using musical modes rather than 
chord progressions as a harmonic framework is closer to Renaissance. As 
the jazz prior to the modal overtaking was based on the Barock tonality. 
But my theoretical basis and my patience is not sufficient to work this 
out.


Am 20.09.2015 13:11, schrieb Frauke Jurgensen:
> ...
> As for the 15th century, while chordal analysis in the post-Rameau,
> functional sense is a bit silly, there's quite a lot of mileage to be
> found in examining successions of simultaneities. It's my special
> field, as a matter of fact...the usual software to help with analysis
> of this sort is Humdrum or music21. I don't know how many of the other
> people involved with those are in this group, but since a bunch of
> them use LilyPond, they may yet wander into this thread!
>
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