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This peice began with a melody. I wrote it for a theory class at a music camp, where the idea was to come up with a simple melody and a set of chords underneath it. I attempted to write it down before I encountered computer notation software. I thought it was in 4/4, but it turned out to alternate between 15/8 and 12/8. The chord progression is Am7 Am7 D7 Am7 Am7 G7 Em7 D7 Am7 Bm7 Em7 Am7. With the exeption of the G7 it feels like it is in a Dorian mode. I kept the v chord minor, because the major V chord felt to strong for the sound I wanted. I developed some variations on this chord progression once I got a hold of a full version of finale that would allow me to create a time sig like 15/8. The idea was to explore different combinations of instruments and rhythms over the same basic harmony. The peice ends on an Am7b5 which leaves quite a bit of tension and is a setup into the next movement (which I haven't written.) How does the song flow as a whole? How does the odd time signature sound? 15over8.MID

Can you, using each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale only once, represent the following 6 intervals: minor second, major second, minor third, major third, fourth, and augmented 4th. I was trying to figure this out today, and I don't think it can be done. I couldn't figure out anyway to apply math to the problem, but maybe someone here can. I posted the idea in this thread because I am trying to find interesting ways to come up with a tone row for writing something atonal. (the idea is to use all 12 notes before repeating any of them.) If anyone has any suggestions for how to do this I would love to hear those as well.

15/8, beated as 5 groups of 3 or 3 groups of 5. Or totally irregular subdivisions. I come up with riffs in 11/8 on occasion too. If I write in 4/4 my phrases usually aren't of equal length anyway, so it doesn't feel like 4/4.