My take on chords, cadences and chromaticism in music

[@blindteo5808]

Happy new year I think you should revisit diminished harmony theory It's not just jazz or Barry Harris but also Scheonberg Personally I find it much more elegant than the theory talk in conventional American universities, especially when analyzing more lyrical bcomposers like Chopin and Debussy

[@AlexanderChisholm-Loxley]

Happy new year! I have the Schoenberg harmony book, but haven’t got around to reading it yet, maybe I will soon. Personally, I’ve always found the diminished chord in isolation to be one of my least favourite sounding chords, and previously I have only ever thought of it as a pivot chord to access dominants of more remote keys, or to add tension in a kind of cliche way. Learning to see it as something far more integral is difficult for me.

[@blindteo5808]

@AlexanderChisholm-Loxley the way I have taken to analyzing it is that the diminished chord has two pairs of tritones and tritones to me strongly want to be resolved therefore the strongest tension I agree all music is cadences or tension and resolution There is a good summary of the diminished geneology by another of Barry's students called Isaac Braz explaining pretty well I may have misspelled his name I love theory discussions

[@AlexanderChisholm-Loxley]

Thanks, will check it out! Yeah, I love them too

[@corradoferri1230]

​@@blindteo5808 I find Him, Isaac Raz. Thank you