{"id":917,"date":"2017-03-30T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/?p=917"},"modified":"2017-03-31T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:09:56","slug":"harmonic-moss-part-5-the-b-form-voicing-of-the-minor-ii-v-i-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/2017\/03\/30\/harmonic-moss-part-5-the-b-form-voicing-of-the-minor-ii-v-i-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonic Moss, Part 5: The &#8216;B&#8217; form voicing of the minor ii-V-i progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The voicing which Phil Degreg calls the \u2018B form\u2019 of the minor ii V i progression starts with a clear demonstration of why Thelonious Monk referred to the minor 7 flat five chord as a \u2018minor sixth chord with the sixth in the bass\u2019.\u00a0 The voicing of the minor seven flat five chord shown here is also, with a different bass note, a root position voicing of a minor 6th chord.\u00a0 The example of a melodic pattern that outlines the voicing is adapted from Charlie Parker\u2019s solo on the big band version of What Is This Thing Called Love (the first six notes are my addition).\u00a0 Another pattern which outlines this voicing is m. 13 to m. 16 in Tadd Dameron\u2019s \u2018Hot House.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 The minor ii-V-i pattern shown in #5 can also be combined contrapuntally with the &#8216;Donna Lee&#8217; pattern in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/2017\/03\/20\/harmonic-moss-part-4-the-a-form-voicing-of-the-minor-ii-v-i-progression\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-927\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/files\/2017\/03\/min-ii-V-patts-B-form-AAA.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voicing which Phil Degreg calls the \u2018B form\u2019 of the minor ii V i progression starts with a clear demonstration of why Thelonious Monk referred to the minor 7 flat five chord as a \u2018minor sixth chord with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/2017\/03\/30\/harmonic-moss-part-5-the-b-form-voicing-of-the-minor-ii-v-i-progression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgcleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}