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I wrote something and it confuses me deeply! Help!

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What do you want to know? What chords you wrote? Inversion or something. By the way, I only could see 4 bars of this tune with the picture you posted.

You're in C maj I guess. I'll give you chords 2 per bar. Cmaj Abmaj/ Abmaj G7sus/ Cmaj Amaj(change that Db to a C#) /Dmin atfer this chord I hear that last chord as an Amin with an E in the bass. Like i6/4 V i, but it doesn't do that. Does that help?

Welcome to the wonderful world of modality.

Is this written in concert pitch or the separate instruments native pitches (I guess that's what you would call them)?

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Modality as in its simply modal? What mode is this in then?

It's not simply modal. It sounds modal to me, but I;m not so into named scales or anything [compositionally. obviously you need to be able to talk about your piece etc etc etc.]

What I'd do is figure out what you have - orchestral, melodically, and harmonically, right in those 8 bars or whatever - and subvert it. You have a clear statement - you need a counterstatement, and not necessarily a melodic one. Let rise and bake for 1:30 at 400

  • 4 weeks later...

This is modal ?? It doesn't definitely look like a modal one for me.

Could you send the midi file so that we'll be able to see the partition .

  • 1 month later...

This is modal ?? It doesn't definitely look like a modal one for me.

Could you send the midi file so that we'll be able to see the partition .

Sounds more like it's based on mediants to me (chords related by third degrees instead of fifth degrees). :)

Try to have something contrasting this, something more "cheerful", or "hopeful" perhaps.

  • 2 weeks later...

I say after the theme is stated have a harp come in. That's what I felt my heart longed for most after hearing that.

  • 5 weeks later...

Not really modal..in Emin to begin with but the way you spell notes makes it more confusing..you write Eb instead of D# then you wrote Ab, a flat fourth degree which sound like G#, as would be present in E major. What is perhaps playing tricks on you is that by measure 4, C effectively sounds like the tonic. This is due to the movement of the Eb(D#) to E in the oboe and the G and C in the clarinet..From there, C temporarily sounds tonic until the restatement of the theme. This creates a pretty interesting basic idea.

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