[net.music.classical] jazz history question - "blue" chord specifics

jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (06/07/84)

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