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Topic: A study in Dm for A6 (or G6 or C6 w/- high G) |
Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 3 Feb 2017 11:51 pm |
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It always irks me when I see the old chestnut of "Major is happy, minor is sad" in print. It just isn't so. Some of Bach's most joyful pieces were in minor. (eg Double Violin Concerto)
Here is a little study I wrote this morning in D minor which goes against the perceived grain I think, with rough and ready recording. Email me for pdf if you would like.
https://soundcloud.com/guy-cundell/blue-mog-strut
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Andy Henriksen
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 6:27 am
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That looks and sounds like a great little workout!
Nice job! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 12:33 pm
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Very nice, Guy!
Here's an in treating discussion of the cultural assumptions of how we react to major vs minor sounds: http://tinyurl.com/hzxlqy4
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 5 Feb 2017 12:20 am
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Thank you for your comments, Andys and Doug. Much appreciated. The recording is somewhat rushed and a little rough. I did a bunch of runs at the B section. That first bar of the section, with the string skip, is not so easy. None of them was perfect so I picked the best two and panned them left and right. I think I got away with it.
That is a very interesting article, Andy V. She is obviously right about cultural conditioning but it is interesting to hear the observation that modern pop is moving away from major tonality without becoming more miserable. The link between speech patterns and music is also of great interest and core to an understanding of Hawaiian music.
I don’t know if I buy her thesis that “when all else is held constant, music in a major key is judged as happy while minor key music is heard as sad.†Reinhardt’s output is a good example of music where the tonality doesn’t seem to determine the mood.
I listen to this digitally altered track and I end up kind of seasick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-WAuwMdozg |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 5 Feb 2017 5:26 am
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When the dominant interval of a triad is a major third,
it may be happy when it is in the harmonic series, achieving resolution. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 5 Feb 2017 1:17 pm
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A salient feature of Celtic modal music as well as the pop music of James Taylor is the absence of the third. This leave the tonality more open to interpretation.
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Andy Volk
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Posted 5 Feb 2017 1:18 pm
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. double
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Last edited by Andy Volk on 5 Feb 2017 2:40 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Steve Atwood
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Massachusetts, USA
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 7 Feb 2017 12:30 am
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| Thanks, Steve. That 'Happy Godfather' sounds as if you could slip it into The Sound Of Music without too much trouble. |
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