<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I have been tracking the recent ongoing discussion of the origins of harmonic concepts with some interest and frustration. Interest because the discussion is interesting. Frustration because I do not have the knowledge of the literature that would enable me to participate in its terms. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I was triggered to write this email by someone's comment about a relatively obscure (in my terms) relationship between minor seventh flat five chords and dominant seventh chords. The relationship is very simple and direct in the simple theory of keyboard harmony presented on my website. Generally, obscure relationships among chords become simple and direct in this theory because "chords" in the theory are derived quantities based on simpler ones. See "Picturing Keyboard Harmony", the introduction of which I have rewritten once again to try and help readers get past the unconventional notation. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I know there have been many visits by this community to this website because large spikes in the number of visits followed earlier messages to SMT-announce and SMT-talk, but the return in actual comments to me has been small, although useful (three people emailed me and followed this up by participating in useful email discussions). Perhaps members of the community have held back making comments because they think the theory is so naive as to be embarrassing. Perhaps they cannot get past the unconventional notation. It cannot be lack of interest in the possibility of a simple theory because of the large spikes in visits. In any case, I would welcome more responses , either on SMT-talk or directly to me. I cannot be embarrassed by negative comments because I have nothing to gain or lose either way. My only objective is to share something interesting I have discovered that does not seem to be widely known. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Email correspondents have suggested that the music theory community might not be the best one for my purposes, but I am targeting it because it is where the deep knowledge resides. I have found that other communities (e.g., jazz pianists) are too focused on performance to be interested in novel ways of thinking about things. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">If anyone in a music department in the SF Bay area reads this and is interested, I would welcome an opportunity to visit and discuss the ideas. I am away from SF until Sep but anytime after that would be great. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I hope the moderator will not think this is overstepping the purpose of the mailing list. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "> </span></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"> </span></font></div>R.J.A. Buhr<div>1150 Lombard St., #21</div><div>San Fransisco CA 94109</div><div><a href="mailto:rjabuhr@gmail.com">rjabuhr@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.pianotheoryman.com">www.pianotheoryman.com</a><br><div><br></div></div></body></html>