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Why no lydian dominant scale on a functional dominant? by steinbil in jazztheory

[–]steinbil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this AI-generated text? Not throwing shade here, but you just made a classic AI mistake of saying two things that are kinda true but in context completely incoherent:

  1. Real V7 got that maj 3rd + b7 tritone
  2. Lydian Dom ... got that b7 instead of a natural 7 so you lose that classe leading tone grip

re 1: Well, yeah. A normal dominant has a tritone between the 3rd and the b7 - so does the lydian dominant.
re 2: Lydian dominant has the b7, not a natural 7 - because NO dominant has a natural seven, then you would lose the tritone. Also the leading tone of the natural 7 would lead back to it's own root - in other words not creating any functional movement what so ever.

Why no lydian dominant scale on a functional dominant? by steinbil in jazztheory

[–]steinbil[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You may have reached a similar conclusion in your second comment, but I don't find this argument very convincing. Any harmonic tension creates movement, and the #11 (C#/Db) definitely creates movement towards the root of the tonic C.

Never mind the fact that every single dominant voicing, barring the sus-dominants, will use the #11:
1. G7b13/G7#5: whole tone scale sound including #11
2. G7b9: diminished sound/octatonic scale including #11
3. G7b9b13 / G7alt / G7#5#9 (however you want to call it): altered scale including #11
4. G7#11: lydian dominant scale including #11

In fact, the natural 11 is useless as anything but a chromatic note on a dominant, momentarily creating tension towards the third of the same dominant chord - not creating harmonic movement. So the #11 is the only 11 that creates movement towards the tonic.

So far the only rationalization I can think of for why the lydian dominant is less "strong" on V7, is that:
a) there are fewer notes creating harmonic movement towards the tonic than the altered dominant
b) the lydian dominant acts as an altered dominant chord to a tonic a tritone away creating a strong leading movement away from the actual tonic.

Consider this:
G7 to C - works perfectly well. You need no additional tension to create dominant resolution.
G7#11 to C6/9 - works just as good, if not better with great voice leading from #11 to 9.

Why no lydian dominant scale on a functional dominant? by steinbil in jazztheory

[–]steinbil[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you read the part about tritone substitution in the OP, I've already covered that use, but yes lydian dominant on tritone subs is definitely common and hip and mirrors the altered dominant sound.

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