[Smt-talk] verbal descriptors of harmony

[Dunsby, Jonathan]

It may amuse American speakers to know that the Associated Board (UK,
but worldwide, graded music teaching/examinations) calls these ("tonic"
etc., as applied to harmonies) the "technical" names for roots (AKA
"notes of the scale").

See
http://www.abrsm.org/regions/fileadmin/user_upload/syllabuses/theory0410
.pdf

I too will be interested to see the winning North American entry...

Jonathan

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Jonathan Dunsby
Chair, Music Theory Department
Professor of Music Theory
Eastman School of Music



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Bob,

For symmetry, how about "Roman names"? Of course, the resultant "RN" 
and "RN" abbreviations might be a bit hard to distinguish!

I use "root-names" myself -- still an "RN" problem, for those who 
abbreviate -- and I use "root-degrees" for root (Roman) numbers, 
"scale-degrees" (or "melodic-degrees") for capped, Arabic numbers.

In short, though, I don't know the answer to your question. I look 
forward to learning it!

yours,

Gerry

Gerald Zaritzky
Faculty, Department of Music Theory
New England Conservatory of Music
290 Huntington Avenue (Room JH 325)
Boston, Massachusetts 02115  USA
617-585-1373; fax: 617-585-1301
gerald.zaritzky at necmusic.edu

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