AW.: Re: 'augmented 6th' chords and their septimal cousins

In einer Nachricht vom 1/26/00 5:40:52 PM (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische Zeit
schreibt Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu:

<< OTOH, don't forget the "Tristan chord", bane of mid-level theory
students everywhere. The pitches sounding look like a 1/2-diminished
7th chord, but it doesn't resolve that way; it resolves like an
augmented 6th chord. One could consider it a variant of the French 6th,
with a minor 3rd above the bass instead of major. >>

Martin Vogel has written an entire book on the "Tristan Chord" with a summary
of the theoretical tradition and his own thesis that it is a subharmonic
seventh chord.

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 DWolf77309@cs.com wrote:
> Martin Vogel has written an entire book on the "Tristan Chord" with a summary
> of the theoretical tradition and his own thesis that it is a subharmonic
> seventh chord.

If we're going to construe the Ger6/It6 as 4:5:(6:)7 and the Fr6 as
4:5:28/5:7 (as several of us have been), it makes about as much sense to
call the Tristan chord 1/7:1/6:1/5:1/4.

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