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+tags: music piano mahler bill-evans thelonious-monk
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+I invented (discovered?) an exercise around the circle of fourths.
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+- It explores pairs of "dissonances" over dominant chords
+
+  - the 13 and the sharp 11
+  - the flat 9 and natural 7
+
+- Tempo: less than 50 bpm (is all I can manage for now)
+- Meter: 4/4.
+
+### Left hand
+
+Like the bass and tenor and alto.
+
+- only dominant 7 chords
+- around the circle of fourths
+- play on each quarter note
+- stride style, very simple
+  - alternate root with 3rd and 7th above
+  - so we end up with harmony changing every 1/2 measure
+- the only complication is
+  - instead of just going around the circle of fourths
+  - go up a major third first, and then up a half step
+  - in effect including a "passing dominant 7" chord
+    - for example, first C7 for 2 beats, then — not F7 — but E7 for 2 bars
+    - and then finally F7 for two bars
+    - then A7.. etc..
+
+### Right hand
+
+Soprano.
+
+- follow the harmony of the left hand
+- play on each 8th note
+- play descending lines that last 2 bars
+- after each 2nd bar, jump up (a minor 7, incidentally) to the next 13
+- on beat 1 always
+  - start with the 13
+  - down to the 5, sharp 11, 5
+  - (an "enclosure" around the 5)
+- on beat 3 always
+  - start with the flat 9 (it will be a 2nd down from the 5 of the preceding chord, forming a smooth line)
+  - then 1, natural 7, 1
+  - (an enclosure around the 1)
+- after every two bars, jump up a minor 7th interval to the next 13, to regain space
+  - this jump is what sounds fateful, Mahlerian, incidentally
+
+### Form
+
+- in this exercise, each of the 12 notes appears as the root twice
+  - once in the "13 sharp 11"
+  - once in the "flat 9 natural 7" chord
+- given a harmonic rhythm of a half note
+  - this is a 12 bar form around the circle of fourths
+
+### There are parallels between
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+- Bill Evans
+  - the root motions follows the first four chords of Someday My Prince Will Come
+- Mahler
+  - when the pattern gets going, I don't know what it is, but something is distinctly Mahlerian, something fateful about the skips up in the right hand
+- Thelonious Monk
+  - the authoritative dissonances, particularly something about playing `3, flat 7, 7 (resolving up to the 1)` over a dominant 7 chord reminds me of Monk
+
+Where was it that I read.. I think it was in Deryck Cooke's _The Language of Music_ (1959).. it doesn't matter where, really. Music is just an arrangement of dissonances.
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+My recent intuition has been that music is all about isomorphisms — all about establishing rich mappings of an idea across a variety of situations.
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+The style of this blog post is inspired by the writing style of Pradeep Soundararajan in his book _Buddha In Testing: Finding Peace In Chaos_.

listening.md

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 Latest first.
 
+- [Alison Krauss - When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOyynogqs9w)
+- [Первым делом самолёты. Песня из фильма "Небесный тихоход" Мы, друзья, перелетные птицы](https://youtu.be/ACYB1XNs04w)
 - [Marian McPartland – Take The 'A' Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApamPp3ZN_M)
   - [Lee Konitz and Hal Galper - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2h7_Hb-RbU)
   - [Chick Corea - Windows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsjNuGUoxE)