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