more on this temperament thing

[David Love]

While many jazz compositions do have a tonal center, improvisational
traditions take the pieces to a number of different keys and the return to
the tonic is not always emphasized.  If a jazz musician is playing in F and
uses C7 chord with a flat 5th and flat 9th and then modulates to Db, that
Ab7 chord with a flat 5th and flat 9th will have a dramatically different
character.  My experience is that most jazz musicians don't want that.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "david severance" <severanc@mail.wsu.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: October 19, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: more on this temperament thing


>   Once you get into music without a tonal center,
> >i.e. some impressionist music, jazz, etc., then ET is better as you don't
> >want key differences to be enhanced.
> >
> >David Love
>
> David
>
> I think you are confusing your musical terminology.  Most, if not all,
> Impressionistic and Jazz are tonal in nature.  That is to say they have a
> key center.  This doesn't mean that there are not transitory modulations
to
> other keys within the piece.  If anything Jazz is the form that is all
about
> tonality.  A jazzer never meant a ii V7 I progression he didn't like, in
> fact we add them in where ever we can.  In western music you find the
atonal
> music in the works of the serious composer's of the 20th Century such as
> Scheonberg, Aban Berg, Bartok and later Stravinsky and others.
Interesting
> music.
>
> David Severance
>