Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook
For the beginning player, with sheet music samples
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starting on the third above it and running straight down the scale ("Three Blind Mice", in fact). About the time of Haydn, the third degree of the scale could be sounded with the G7 harmony (making, in effect, a G13). This was, however, still rather a daring degree of tension, and so the third degree of the scale was not printed in full, but was written as a small grace note:
Example 23
 Later, with the romantic composers, the "dominant 13th" became perfectly respectable, and you could print the third degree of the scale above your G7 as large as life—you could even add the 6th degree to your final chord, thereby adding a bit of tension even to the 'home': |
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You could vary this, at a still later date, by having several degrees of tension in the last bar but one of your music: first a Dm 9, then an ordinary G13, then |
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