Timeline for Transitioning from E minor to an "Asian" G major
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 9:03 | vote | accept | Andrew Cheong | ||
| Aug 3, 2017 at 8:23 | comment | added | Some_Guy | please do give an update as to how it's going :) Also, sorry about my ...er... presentational style, the other night, although hopefully at least my content was helpful! | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 22:31 | comment | added | Andrew Cheong | Thank you for all of your comments, @Some_Guy! Very helpful. The actual reason we don't wanna change the key is indeed unrelated to history: we already have the folk song down, bowings and all, and the wedding is coming up very soon. Just trying to economize on effort :-) Totally agree with your points though. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 16:37 | answer | added | industryfatcat | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 16:31 | answer | added | Some_Guy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | Some_Guy | Also just as a side note, it's seems a little strange to want to play a Korean folk song in the "original" key, since it will have existed long long before concert pitch was standardised, and for most of its history will have been played at a myriad of pitches. I mean, how long has the Korean musical practice even included the western "notes"? I don't know anything at all about Korean music, but I imagine the answer is a couple of hundred years at most? Or do you just like the way that key for that melody works specifically on the violin, in which case, fair play. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 16:06 | comment | added | Some_Guy | (cont.) the few "functional harmony" things you can do with the pentatonic, so that's not going to be the problem. I'll have a listen to the einaudi song now. Pretty much all of his music is diatonic chords thoughtlessly thrown together and repeated ad nauseum, so it shouldn't be too hard to get it to transition effectively by just throwing another couple of chords in. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | Some_Guy | I don't know the song but the melody you've written here is very much G major pentatonic. This can sound "Asian" but doesn't necessarily have to, the pentatonic is one of the most common sets of notes to use in all kinds of music, European folk music included. Take a look at this nice demonstration of how intuitive it is by bobby mcferrin youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk Also this video shows is just how readily and easily major pentatonic modulates to and from the relative minor (when he sings dyaaa da da da above, that's exactly what's happening). , in fact, it's one of (cont.) | |
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