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Re: [tuning-math] Digest Number 867

🔗jon wild <wild@fas.harvard.edu>

12/10/2003 4:49:59 AM

> > And invoking set-classes doesn't mean you're suddenly
> > not allowed to additionally distinguish the L and R versions
> > of a chord (I call them "left-handed" and "right-handed",
> > because I find "prime" and "inverted" a bit obnoxious,
> > as if one's more important than the other).
>
> bravo! that's one of best refinements of music-theory
> terminology that i've ever seen!

Thanks Monz :) If you ever need to "sell" these terms to anyone else, you
could also tell them that the left-handed version is usually much better
suited to the left hand, pianistically speaking, than the right-handed
version.

For example try playing this (read from low to high): B C# D# F# D --it
fits much better under the left hand!!
And its right-handed version D Bb Db Eb F can pretty much only be played
with teh right hand.

--Jon