During rehearsals, she noticed Benny giving her a funny look--a stare jazz musicians famously called "the ray." When Marian played an inversion or slightly
altered chord, Benny would hunch up his shoulders "like he had been stabbed in the back," she said.
These gradually move to more complex terms including
altered chord symbols.
I was impressed by the helpful practice steps and understandable explanations of topics including rootless voicings, using your ear to hear subtleties that can't be notated in the score, anticipation and altered chords.
Chapters 8--16 continue with advanced and altered chords, extended harmonies, stride, boogie-woogie and lead sheets.
"Words Like Freedom." C with shifting
altered chords; [E.sub.3]-E[flat].sub.4]; Tess: mH; 4/4, Calm, innocent ([quarter note] = 84); V/M, P/M; 1 1/2 pages.
Brief, succinct chapters are presented on Keyboard Styles, Chords and Inversions, the Gospel Beat, Changing the Meter, Syncopation, Chord Progressions and Harmonic Color, and
Altered Chords. Each chapter features partial musical examples of first the original hymn or song and the gospel-inflected re-imagining of it.
Harmony, Advanced, delves into modal mixtures, German 6ths, chromatically
altered chords as well as chords related by a chromatic 3rd, numerous other chord types.
143), distinct from our usual binary between diatonic and
altered chords. This model would recognize metal's prevalent use of harmonies with high degrees of sounding consonance, even when such structures as played seem nondiatonic, and the relative lack of harmonies with high degrees of sounding dissonance, even when such structures as played would fit within the prevailing mode.
Altered chords (Neapolitan sixth, augmented sixths) are not introduced.
Cope includes consideration of traditional tonal techniques such as modulation and
altered chords and their effects in a polytonal environment.