<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 28, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dmitri Tymoczko wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">[. . .]</font><br><br>Here's George's post:<br><br>==========================.<br><br>There's a Frank Loesser movie song from about 1945 . . . . . I think he sneaks the tritone-sub sound into "Guys and Dolls" (1950), but by then it's a commonplace.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>"Luck Be a Lady Tonight" is built over a rumbling alternation of I and bII that I think carries on over a ^1 pedal (or maybe the pedal sustains in upper voices). I hear neighbors in a modal context, but how many would hear this as necessarily a V sub? (There may be others in the show; this example comes to mind first--my 13-yr-old was just Nicely Nicely Johnson for two perfs--boy, was that fun!)<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Walter Everett</div><div>Professor of Music</div><div>Chair, Department of Theory</div><div>The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance</div><div>1100 Baits Dr.</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:weverett@umich.edu">weverett@umich.edu</a></div><div>voice: 734-763-2039</div><div>fax: 734-763-5097</div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>