Luis Hernández Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Edom means "red" in Hebrew, and it was and ancient city / region next to the Dead Sea. MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu Edom - Edom (Sal 108-11) > next PDF Edom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 This is very gorgeous. I love the suspended animation. It really adds to the flavor. Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 One question I have is why you didn't use the traditional augmented second interval (i.e., Eb - F#) often associated with this subject matter? This would have really drawn the inspiration home -at least to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Hernández Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 10 hours ago, jawoodruff said: One question I have is why you didn't use the traditional augmented second interval (i.e., Eb - F#) often associated with this subject matter? This would have really drawn the inspiration home -at least to me. You mean like s G harmonic minor? Or just the interval... I don't know, it began in a sort of Bm but it went through some layers of polychords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Yes... sort of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Luis Hernández said: You mean like s G harmonic minor? Or just the interval... I don't know, it began in a sort of Bm but it went through some layers of polychords. And by, yes.. sort of... what I meant was that usually its just the interval -as its usually modified even in major modalities. I like to think of it as the Middle Eastern Interval -as you see it a lot in the music of Bloch and others. I didn't realize this was in Bm... it almost sounded whole tone in some spots -was that intentional? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Hernández Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 @jawoodruff Many times I don't think in a tonality, or I mix tonal music with other things, so there was nothing intentional. Regarding those scales with augmented seconds and semitones I'm used to hear them all the time. I live in the Mediterranean coast and all the traditional scales around are based on those intervals, from Middle East to Spain, from North Africa to Balkans.... I didn't want an ethnic flavor. In fact, I liked that Edom means Red. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 5 hours ago, Luis Hernández said: @jawoodruff Many times I don't think in a tonality, or I mix tonal music with other things, so there was nothing intentional. Regarding those scales with augmented seconds and semitones I'm used to hear them all the time. I live in the Mediterranean coast and all the traditional scales around are based on those intervals, from Middle East to Spain, from North Africa to Balkans.... I didn't want an ethnic flavor. In fact, I liked that Edom means Red. No worries at all. Was just surprised to not hear the augmented second. The piece is good. Was just a query. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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