2009/5/5 Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk>:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 00:52 -0600, Sean Hunt wrote:
>> I spend A C D to decrease Dvorak Herring's caste.
>
> Fails, those don't form a triad. (A minor triad, which you would need,
> is an interval of 3 semitones followed by an interval of 4 semitones.
> What you have there is an interval of 3 semitones followed by an
> interval of 2 semitones.)
>
The spending fails altogether, right? The only other option would be
to view it as spending two notes x semitones from each other to gain a
note x semitones from a third note spent, but that would fail due to
unambiguity since it's not specified which note is which.

-- 
-Tiger

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