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TUNING digest 819

🔗Lionel E Dotson <ldotson@...>

8/26/1996 6:36:51 PM
tuning@eartha.mills.edu wrote:
>
> From: PAULE
> To: tuning
> Subject: RE: The magnificient senventh...
> In traditional harmony, the dominant seventh is a dissonance and must be tuned as a dissonance. Otherwise, it doesn't want to resolve.

Paule, please pardon me,but WHY is the dominant 7th a dissonance? To me
a tuned 7th is very consonant.

In jazz in the mixolydian mode, the dominant seventh chord is the tonic
chord, and tuning it more purely can only add to its tonicity. It can,
however, make the chord sound out of tune with respect to the scale.

Do you mean with respect to the tempered scale?

I'm an "ear" singer-listener-whatever. Are you referring to a 7th whose
tones are in frequency ratios of 4x:5x:6x:7x where x=some fundamental
frequency? Or am I in over my head and should just go away(g)?


Ed Dotson
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