AW.: RE: RE: That Scale

In einer Nachricht vom 10/26/99 11:33:28 PM (MEZ) - Mitteleurop.
Sommerzschreibt PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com:

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>Yes. This is what I would expect "inversion" to mean, but it contradicts
>the usual meaning wrt chord inversions.

I know. I think I picked up this non-usual usage from Daniel Wolf. I should
try to drop it. >>

"Inversion" is used in at least two senses: inversion of a collection of
intervals, changes of positions or voicings in chords.

Inverting the intervals exactly is standard usage in professional music
theory, particularly in post-tonal music, but with a long tradition -- i.e.
in contrapuntal imitation, where inversions are "real" (intervallically
exact) or "tonal" (not the same as chordal voicings but, in a deep way, not
unrelated either).

The usage with regard to chord voicings seems appropriate more in vernacular
music contexts, where the "chord" as theoretical object has rather more
importance that in those musics where "chords" are a parallel attribute of
the voice leading among individual melodic lines. (In other words, Morley,
Fux, and Schenker instead of Rameau and Riemann).

Daniel Wolf