Calutions

Possible performance notes: Calutions is a made up word that plays nicely with its antonym of concoction. It is a collection of complementary flavors.

The origin of the word came from a large spice market located in New York City called Kalustyan's. This piece is a collection of modes and scales that have a main stepwise theme, but enters in many different variations in styles.

theme :  March in B major

A; minor variation in B

B; waltz in B Dorian

C; Taqsim in Phrygian 

D; Fantasia in B lydian

E: folk dance in mixolydian

F; sinister March in Locrian

G; variation in E  Major Pentatonic 

H; Gagaku in minor Pentatonic

I; variation in suspended Pentatonic

J; shuffle in blues pentatonic

K; folk dance in dominant Pentatonic

L: Taqsim in A harmonic minor

M; kinda maqsum in double harmonic minor

O; Tarantella in A octatonic