<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm sure my music theory classes are now terribly out of date, but whatever happened to the category of chords described simply as "dominant embellishing?" —And placing emphasis on the surprise created by their occasional wickedly unexpected resolutions? ;-)<div><br></div><div>BYW, I love the idea of having fun with the names of the augmented six chords. It seems to me that it helps make them more vivid for students and probably also puts them into a useful perspective. </div><div>ls<br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; 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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Lon Sherer, A.Mus.D.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Emeritus Professor of Music</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Goshen College</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Goshen, IN 46526</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><a href="mailto:lonhs@goshen.edu">lonhs@goshen.edu</a></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(50, 29, 2); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">"Silence and music come nearest to expressing the inexpressible." </span></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#321D02" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(50, 29, 2); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> ~Aldous Huxley, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Music at Night and Other Essays~</span></font></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(50, 29, 2); "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></i></span></div></span></div></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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