Fred's Casting - "How will I attain political power?"

Perhaps my most intriguing Muzoracle casting to date - Fred asked the Muzoracle "How will I attain political power?".  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.)

My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  Since two strings cards were dealt in the 1st and 3rd position, I used Violin and Cello.  In the 2nd position I dealt a Tritone of Percussion so I used a Clavichord.  In the 4th and 5th positions I dealt a Major 2nd and a Triad of Voices, so I used choir.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here:  https://muzoracle.net/

This short musical interpretation of Fred's Casting is about a minute and a half long.  The piece is in C major since the black musician's die landed on C.  I then made the following melodic/harmonic underdrawing that I used in the composition of the music.  To fill out the piece harmonically I included Roman numeral interpretations of each of the dyads/positions in the casting.  Since the piece starts with strings I used Violin, Cello and Harpsichord in the first three positions.  The voices then come in on the 4th and 5th position.  The Triad card is normally supposed to be interpreted as a major triad, but since this was a descending casting and the position where the triad card was dealt was descending I decided to interpret it in a negative harmony way, inverting the intervals of the triad downwards, thus producing an E minor triad based on B (Ti).  Then, to conclude the piece I reversed the order of the chords in retrograde fashion to land back on the first chord at the conclusion, but reinterpreting it harmonically as a C major 6 chord.  I also reinterpreted the triad as a major triad ascending from B (Ti).

If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading!  And I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Fred's Casting.  Comments, critiques, suggestions, or observations are of course, always welcome.  Thanks for listening!

Fun motif, and interesting instrument choices. I like how you abruptly change the mood from fast, upbeat -> slow and dramatic. This is the same technique I use in my Mario musicals actually. I make Peach seem all innocent and sweet, then the next scene, BAM, I have her change her attitude. I feel that this technique adds a shock value for the listener or viewer. You are doing the same thing with your harmony and rhythms by abruptly shifting both, which keeps the music unpredictable. Even though your music is unpredictable with that regard, it's still well structured, and easy to follow.

Like Mike I like the complete shift of mood, meter and rhythm in the passages. Thx for sharing!

Henry