User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony (Part 1): Difference between revisions

'''Supergradient''' - This is a note that occurs at intervals between roughly 25 cents above the Tonic and 25/24 above the Tonic.  These intervals tend to act as parachromatic alterations of either the Tonic, or, more rarely in Bass-Up Tonality, the Contralead.  However, there there are a few functional differences between a Supergradient and a Contralead in Bass-Up Tonality that are worth considering.  For starters, Supergradients are often more likely to be passing tones than Contraleads, and, when they’re not merely passing non-chord tones, they are just as liable to resolve upward thought some sort of semitone-like motion to some form of Contralead or Semicontralead, as they are to resolve downwards toward the Tonic, a property which intervals like 33/32 in particular are apt to demonstrate.  Furthermore, whereas a Contralead can resolve to the Tonic in part through a strong harmonic connection, a Supergradient is much more likely to do so through sheer brute force when such a resolution is noticeable.  As if that weren't enough, the Subgradient also has the Antinterregnant function.  This function used to be called the "Superdietic", though that term has since been restricted to a related composite function (see below on Composite Functions).

These are quartertone functions that are not on the Paradiatonic Scale.  Of these, there are only two basic functions...