Abstract
Abstract This chapter reconstructs aspects of diminished-seventh chord usage and modulation in the long eighteenth century that have been lost to and distorted by modern conceptualizations. The reconstruction centers on the “diatonic” foundations of scale degree ♯4 and the diminished seventh chord build upon it. Corpus study is a methodological driver of the project, but with a reflective and critical eye that questions conventional understanding and ultimately leads to a novel, practical, and hands-on realization of the method that operationalizes DIM7 modulation and the history of theory via schemata and comprovisation. Using the diminished seventh chord as its object of inquiry, this chapter tells a story of musical epistemology and the different role that corpora may play in its creation—the different types of knowledge their analysis might produce as well as the varieties of its representation, according to their particular alignment with different ways of doing music theory.
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