12-tone-ish reharmonization of Mary Had a Little Lamb

I used the matrix derived from the tone row 0,5,8,1,4,9,2,7,10,3,6,11 (my favorite) to reharmonize Mary Had a Little Lamb.

I didn't follow all of Herr Schoenberg's rules about 12-tone music making it, rather I treated the matrix as 2-dimentional scale, so you won't see all 12 notes in it. I guess you could say I followed the spirit of his method, rather than the letter. I treated notes that are closer together on the matrix as more sympathetic harmonically.

Here's the piano roll of the end result:

And a midi:

mary lamb reharm.mid

My favorite chord is definitely the GM7 because it technically follows the basic harmonic structure. The last chord could have been manipulated enough to hilariously and ironically end on I but it's fun the way you have it. Having to change the melody for the III chord was a little off (rules of reharmonization, blah blah, etc.) but still a neat way of combining two different comp techniques.

Thanks, that was a good idea to change the final chord to something more unexpected, so I raised the A to an A# in it. So now it's an A#sus2 instead of an F major chord. How delightfully weird!

Midi:

mary lamb reharm 2.mid