ok, so now I’m supposed to read Schoenberg’s “Structural Functions of Harmony”
do you recommend it?
I bet I’ll like it.
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Music Thoughts
minor chord followed by a Major a whole step up
ok so minor keys don’t usually have II chords that are MAJOR< which would be diatonic to the Lydian mode, yes?
I have known that one of the main themes from the soundtrack to V FOR VENDETTA has such a chord (a dominant seventh chord, in that case.)
I just noticed, while watching the ever-grim film
CITIZEN X (about the Soviet Serial Killer)
it TOO features a minor chord, b minor, followed by Db (or C#) Major…, prominently.
and both films feature actor Steven Rea, wouldn’t you know…(in both films, he is in the role of a cop (or something similar) looking, the whole film, for an elusive bad guy, and in both films, he nearly catches him early in the film but does not…)
dude DUDE… Major Scale, Sharp FIVE.
dude DUDE…
Major Scale, Sharp FIVE.
and the seven (including itself) modes of IT.
fascating…. Lydian Sharp TWO…
the 3rd mode, is (if it’s a Bb Major Sharp 5) is
D Eb F# G A Bb C D…
Major, flat 6, 7, AND 2…
stage 3, of NINJA GAIDEN III uses this, of all things (that’s how I thought of it…)
I mean, dude, that’s like Flamenco music, ain’t it?
Major, b6, b7, b2?
I like myself.
I like myself.
I like myself.
it’s pretty great being in a nice space where
it’s pretty great, being in a place where you feel safe being UNself-conscious, UNjudged, like you BELONG.
slowly but surely, this place expands outward from where it first happens for you, to other places too,
even though the “people” in those “other places” may be by and large not that fun.
YOU are.
better than nothin.
and still-
it’s nice to be in the original place too.
to you face
I knew a guy named ***, and a woman named ####, in undergrad.
both played trumpet (not at CalArts, before it.)
people, I think a bit disparagingly, called him “Cool ***” (he simply had one of those kinda charismatic NYC voices, that’s all, and he smiled a lot, that’s all,)
and the other, people called, Crackhead ####.
BOTH, behind their back, NEVER to their face.
I of course, didn’t see why either name would be offensive IN THE SLIGHTEST,
so I of course, called both of them these nicknames TO THEIR FACE,
MOST UN-self-consciously (and proud of it, thank you very much.)
It’s not that was socially inept, but I simply didn’t find those terms offensive, nor see any reason why they should be.
if the names had ACTUALLY hurt their feelings, (and if they had ACTUALLY, CLEARly communicated to me that they DID,)
I’d have of course not used them.
I tend to assume, when I talk to people DIRECTLY, that they mean what they say. (I usually do, myself.)
hell yeah.
(to this day, when someone has a nickname (usually something I cook up myself,) I ASK them, POINT FUCKING BLANK, do they mind if I use it, for I had pretty uncool nicknames when I was little. I won’t want to hurt their feelings if using the nickname would, but again, alas,
they need to be clear with me about their true feelings.”)
I want to sing the Berlioz Requiem some time
one thing I would like,
of all things…
is to sing in a big chorus of
The Berlioz Requiem some time…
if you can point me in the right direction, feel free.
Loved, first and foremost by
You deserve to be loved
first and foremost by Yourself.
never surround yourself with others who revile you.
it’s kinda like relationships or marriage –
it’s kinda like relationships or marriage.
there are people who really love you and WANT you.
others may accept you, others revile you.
why would you choose any but the first?
which kind of monkey are you?
there are people who really wanna make things happen, and there are others who just sorta do, and other who don’t wanna at all.
use the ones who really wanna.
tagged WAGNER because he was the CAN DO variety of MASSIVE proportions.