Blue In Green key

Paul Erlich, regarding my "Blue In Green" excerpt, said:

> You only posted the end of the song, so I can't get a sense of the key. My
> Altec speakers must suck, since I really hear the last chord as a major 9th
> chord with the soprano singing the major 7th. I do hear the tiny upward
> shift today. Would you mind giving the notes for the last few chords?

Your Altecs are working fine. Evidently my Yamahas are not. I checked the
score and the final melody note is G over an Ab major chord with added
ninth. The spelling (up from bass) is Ab-Eb-Bb-C-G. Evidently, my speakers
had some difficulty sounding the lowest pitch, leaving my ears only the
upper four pitches. My assumption, knowing that the melody is largely in Eb
major, was that the last chord would have been an Eb chord, and that's what
I heard.

The important thing here is that both our ears are working fine. It's
technology that was insufficient to the task. :-)

The significance of the moving pitch is still of interest, however, since
the tuning of the G may very well have been influenced by the combination of
the sounding Eb and Bb. To me, the shift is not tiny, however.

Jerry