Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical Subject: Re: jazz history question - "blue" chord specifics Message-ID: <3833@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 11:48:27 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.3833 Posted: Thu Jun 7 11:48:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:07:24 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 11 The chord I was referring to in my earlier article is a dominant 7th with an added flatted third. Sometimes a flatted 5th is added as well. (Or would you call it a raised 9th and 11th? Depends where it goes.) These chords, and/or similar ones, are found in Ravel: "Oiseax tristes" from "Miroirs", 1905, and "Scarbo" from "Gaspard de la Nuit", 1908, as well as Debussy, "? pas sur le niege" (sp) from the Preludes, book I (1908?). Probably several others as well, but these come to mind right away. Were there barbershop quartets in turn-of-the-century France? Jeff Winslow