source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:05:28 -0800 Subject: Re: chords From: World Harmony Project > Hi, Ya'll > I'm back again. Regarding Neil's question: There are a number of > very different chords available within one harmonic series. While the > most familiar would be the 4/5/6 or major chord, there are also the > extensions of of 4/5/6/7, 4/5/6/7/9, 4/5/6/7/9/11, etc. also, if you use > the higher harmonics without the "roots" of 4/5/6 you can get completely > different sounds. For instance, 6/7/9 produces a subminor triad on the > dominant. 7/9/11 is a completely different sound: sort of an augmented > chord that could be either an extention of the fundamental tonality or a > component of mode 7, 9 or 11. You can play any 3 or four higher harmonics > together that are either all odd or all even (alternating) to get very > unusual yet very resonant chords, up to about the 20/22 area where the > tones become seconds rather than thirds. All this on One fundamental! > Change fundamentals and it starts all over again! > > Best, > > Denny Genovese > WHP, SEJIC > > Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:21 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA16708; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:21:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:21:20 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu