Talk:Ragtime progression

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[edit] Examples

Couldn't we get some examples from ragtime music? —Wahoofive (talk) 00:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I just tried to remove the sharp signs on the chord progressions. They shouldn't be there. I don't understand the "math notation", however, and simply deleting the words "sharp" in the html resulted in an error. How do I do this?

By the way, before anyone jumps at me claiming that the "#"'s SHOULD be there, I offer my reasoning:

The sharp symbols must imply the 'sharpening' of something. There are only two things they could be applying to: the triad itself (in some way), or the 7th.

If the sharps are positioned under the 7's in order to represent major 7's, then, aside from being highly unconventional, I would object that the 7ths are performing a dominant function, and that they must therefore be simply 7ths (in jazz / pop terminology) (or "minor 7ths" in classical terminology). Moreover, the reference cited on the page gives an example with unequivocally 'ordinary' / 'non-sharpened' 7ths for this ragtime progression. If, on the other hand, the sharps are intended to imply that the chord types are major as opposed to minor, then the final dominant should also have one for consistency, though a sharp sign to indicate major would, again, be far from conventional, and ludicrously ambiguous. Wfructose 17:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)