"== This article has a peculiarity.... == (...and had it twice before I removed the redundancy.) ""The Lydian chord has a peculiarity, in that placing the root both above and below the augmented eleventh creates an unpleasant dissonance of a tritone."" I think I get what this trying to say, but couldn't it be better said as ""doubling the root above the augmented eleventh emphasizes the dissonance of the tritone"" (which is already present, not mystically ""created"" by placing the root above the 11th)? ""The interval of the sixth is used even though it is described after other compound intervals, and perhaps should also be a compound interval (i.e., 13th).[vague] However, convention in Jazz dictates that when describing the
"== This article has a peculiarity.... == (...and had it twice before I removed the redundancy.) ""The Lydian chord has a peculiarity, in that placing the root both above and below the augmented eleventh creates an unpleasant dissonance of a tritone."" I think I get what this trying to say, but couldn't it be better said as ""doubling the root above the augmented eleventh emphasizes the dissonance of the tritone"" (which is already present, not mystically ""created"" by placing the root above the 11th)? ""The interval of the sixth is used even though it is described after other compound intervals, and perhaps should also be a compound interval (i.e., 13th).[vague] However, convention in Jazz dictates that when describing the tr