Re: Neapolitan chords & al.

[Menu Jacques]

One more point: there’s also ‘pedal’ in MusicXML:

      <harmony>

        <root>

          <root-step>C</root-step>

        </root>

        <kind>pedal</kind>

      </harmony>

Is that just equivalent to having a usual pedal?

JM

Le 13 sept. 2017 à 11:09, Menu Jacques <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hello Mike,

Excellent, thanks!

JM

Le 13 sept. 2017 à 10:27, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> a écrit :

hm, my answer is a bit out of lilypond scope, but if I understand your question correctly, you want to understand what these chords are?

they are three different pre-dominant chords that are taught to American undergrads in a sophomore theory course.

in E major:

Italian = C E A#

French = C E F# A#

German = C E G A#

Tristan = C D# F# A#

in all of them, the C and A# in theory want to fan out to B (the dominant).  This is, of course, in theory - Wagner’s use of the Tristan chord, which he clearly named his opera after, has the A# moving down to A, or the 7th of the dominant (I’m transposing to fit w/ the example above).  Wagner obviously did not pay much attention during his sophomore music theory course…

~Mike