minor chord family of colors

Within the various styles of American music, with the majority of the music created from within the major tonality, oftentimes the presentation of the theory is based upon how our various musical components are derived from the major scale colors. So, as so often is the case within this text, the minor 7th chord is generally viewed as being a chord which is diatonically created from the second scale degree of the major scale, giving it the common name of the "Two chord", and in part of the following theoretical discussions, creating a "Two chord type" of generic harmony. So, what happens to this way of discussing the theory when the music is created within the minor tonality from the natural minor scale, and this "minor 7 chord type" becomes a tonic or One chord type?

One of my deepest ongoing concerns in writing this text is to not bias the reader in regards to what musical components are important to their creations by the way the theory unfolds within the text. There are just way too many natural players who create way cool music by simply articulating what they hear, not being overly concerned with the theory of identifying, naming and linking their musical elements into a bigger system of musical organization. This present discussion regarding the minor 7th chord is a good example of my concern. So in the attempt to avoid the biasing of any reader, I have simply broken down the discussions concerning the minor 7th chord type into the two topics as presented above. Basically in how the minor 7th chord color functions within the major and minor tonalities. The third link below concerns an important hue of the minor 7th color, the minor 11 chord color, which potentially is equally important in both of the major and minor tonal environments. Thus, the minor 11 chord gets it's own page, due not only to it's importance within both the major and minor tonalities, but also for it's ability to create it's own unique tonal environment and sense of tonal gravity. Here are the links for discussions of the minor chordal colors.

So, are the major and minor environments equally important to the creative musician? Way. Is the way the musical elements unfold within the text how I understand the theory? Exactly. Does the readers have to be the same? Of course not, that is one of the truly cool aspects of the American thing, the freedom to choose which elements best represent and express our artistic ideas and statements coupled with a society that not only allows but encourages this individual exploration to happen. Cool with this?

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt