Timeline for Retrograding a melody that ends on a whole note
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 17:21 | answer | added | user45266 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:07 | answer | added | Heather S. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 11:08 | comment | added | Pat Muchmore | Ok, well I see what part of the confusion with your question is: you said your melody ends with a whole note, but there aren’t actually any whole notes in your melody. It ends with a quarter note, so a strict retrograde would begin with a quarter note. Where you place it in the meter is entirely up to your compositional desires. (Except for a small misprint in B) Both of your examples are perfectly fine pitch retrogrades, but only B is also a rhythmic retrograde. You could have started B on beat 1, 2 or 3 without changing that. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 11:02 | answer | added | Laurence | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:31 | comment | added | user36492 | @Tim I have attach an example score to make my problem more clear to you. In actuality if I was to play the melody ^ in reverse, wouldn't I play the note on the fourth measure as in eighth instead of a quarter considering that the note before it is an eighth and hence the gap between the last note and the second last note is half a beat and not a full beat? | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:28 | history | edited | user36492 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:26 | comment | added | user36492 | But it seems weird to me because the time gaps between the notes, when reversed, should change as well. Let me attach an example score to show you what I mean. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:24 | comment | added | Tim | You mean playing the whole melody backwards? In that case, a semibreve stays a semibreve, otherwise you're not doing what you want. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:19 | comment | added | user36492 | I mean reversing the melody. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:04 | comment | added | Tim | What do you mean by 'retrograding'? | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 9:47 | history | asked | user36492 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |