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The Master is not god, he is Wagner

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some slippery chromatic harmony indeed:)

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ok….ew…. (juicy and delicious harmony I do say)

cminor… arpeggiate (HEY, facebook says that is spelled incorrectly. it ain’t.) (perhaps I’m wrong…)
ahem
c minor (more like a low C, without any other notes, in what”sounds” like a minor context…)
, arpeggiate the bassline up C Eb F# then Ab… the melody DOWN Eb—–C—— (at same time.

so it’s c minor, then C diminished, then it adds an Ab,,,, making it sorta Ab 7…sorta…(it’s real sus-y.)
THEN-
c# diminished, into d Half-diminished, D F A C, resolving, as if it were a V chord ( a diminished one) up a perfect 4th to
G Major, with B in the bass, First Inversion….

repeat down a half step….

b minor, into b dim, into G 7, soooorta,
to c diminished, into C# half-dimished, then, as if it’s a diminished FIVE chord, (yes, “lol”) move it up a perfect fourth to F# Major, over a A#, first inversion….

guess what this is….
I didn’t write it.
guess what it is…

It’s Wagner, from Gotterdammerung,

the WALTRAUTE scene, from Act I.

 

5:26 on the 19th track of the opera, in the middle of the Waltaute Scene, as Waltraute explains to her sister Brunnhilde the dire situation at Valhalla.

enjoy.

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so um, what ARE “new music people” doing?

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so um,
may I ask,

all those
New Music People

who are playing more gigs than I,

what exactly ARE you doing?

playing a fair amount of gigs,
not getting paid all that much at all (same here)
and making your money with a combo of
teaching and “other gigs” (likely, mostly teaching)
yes?

my life may in fact not be all that bad at all.

especially if this seldom pays much at all, which, does seem the case.

I’d rather play less often, and when I do, have it be big and huge and awesome, and then nothing. or at least, in a more ideal and better organized world, BIG and HUGE AGAIN, just MORE OFTEN.

but not smaller, not practical, not smaller and less.

that doesn’t do it for me.

you want a slice of pizza, I want the whole pie.
you want a drink, I wanna party hard and be unconscious in an alley and hurt for two days.

you want a nice leisurely drive through the country on a sunday,
I wanna drive so far I wreck the car and can’t walk for a year.

well, I’ve already got this life, so, mission accomplished.

lets’ continue getting ready for the next big project, which still may take years.

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if something is not going to pay…

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the THOUHT of the day is:

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it better be worth your effort in awesomeness.

if it’s not… even if it IS, to someone else…

don’t do it.

life’s too short.

when something is for fun…
it needs to ACTUALLY
BE
FUN.

FOR YOU.

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be precise. be perfect. in the good way.

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very often people do things in a manner MOST imprecise, imperfect.
when it comes to Artistic manners this is UNACCEPTABLE.

HAHAHAHA!!!
Yes, I really did just say that.

please don’t be half-assed.
don’t not care enough to figure out HOW to not be half-assed, to actually not BE half-assed.

please be awesome.
please try hard..
please be patient with thyself.
please be awesomer.
please try harder.

“perfection of the bad kind” (when you are too hard on yourself, hate yourself, and are generally negative and destructive to yourself,) never do this ever.

However-
“Perfection of the Good Kind”
is NOT OPTIONAL!!
GO FORTH!bulls-eye-1044725_1920

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dynamics between people, should/shouldn’t

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we wonder, what the dynamic between two people “should” or “could” be… regarding me being
1. a total loner
2. an introvert (or, maybe not, see below)
3. a Highly Sensitive Person
4. oh, depressed on occasions, more so in the past than now…
5. intelligent, so they tell me
6. kinda crazy
7. oh, adhd meaning my interests are super super specific and are in “intense things”, preferably over and over till I’m too tired to move or talk.
8. oh, yes, an ENTP,
etc, but let’s not get granite-1209113_1920ahead of ourselves, MYself, that is, here, now… let’s not.

we’re, I’M,
just,

so comfortable being alone…

do we (do I) really want to mess all this up, with the chaos that is another person…

who knows…

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too business-like

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Not everything is supposed to be run like a business.
frankly, I think that applies to most businesses as well.

really,

Care about more than just making money.  please.

 

and by god, don’t define yourself in terms of how much money you make, your relationship to others, within a business, elsewhere, or to  a business.

 

you are an individual.  be a good one.  have  a heart.  dollar-163473_1280

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“promotes the advancement of inferior tones”

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so I just read in a Schoenberg book, on page 6, (I read such books very slowly, for when they end… the fun is gone, so of course, draw it out…)

the term

“promotes the advancement of INFERIOR TONES.”
!
…
…
that of course shows a bias not unbefitting classical harmony of the olden days,
a bias towards things making “sense” in the old sense, and in traditional hierarchies, sort of like gender roles, or any other system of judging people’s worth by how they compare to “some other” people, or worse, how well they “conform” to some “system.”

fyi, fuck such things.

so

MY POINT is the following thought, is my reaction to that quote from Schoenberg, WHICH IS:

regarding the advancement of inferior tones, or superior ones, or even the labeling of tones as superior or inferior,

on the notion whether advancing an inferior tone is some kind of bad thing unless done in a certain context…(grrr, my anger is barely beneath the surface, for many reasons…)

“That Depends,
on whether you wish to
1. submit to the system, defining yourself by it
2. work within the system, albeit a bit less subserviently than option #1
3. gradually move to change the system, or
4. DESTROY IT, or, at least,
4a. NOT USE IT and use SOME OTHER SYSTEM more fitting to YOUR NEEDS AND FEELINGS.

this reminds me of a quote, I think….. no, just a saying, from some book, which said that debate on the following subject had raged since “EMMERSON.”, R.W. (off hand, don’t even know without google when he was…)
something like:
“what do artists owe society, and what does our society owe artists?

that’s not the quote, only sorta…

BUT ANYWAY:

I’m partial to options 4 and 4a, myself.

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firstreactions/Structural Functions/Schoenberg

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-FIRST SENTENCE of Schoenberg’s Structural Functions of Harmony AND I QUOTE:“A triad standing alone is indefinite it it’s harmonic meaning”
TAKE THAT, GUY I KNEW IN COLLEGE WHO DISAGREED WITH ME!!! (see next sentence)

we had a discussion once, in which “I” thought that c minor, could be ANYTHING of ANYTHING… and he thought it was more powerful AS the opening chord of, say, Beethoven Piano Sonata Pathetiqe, C minor, #8.

First page of this book also shows not one but FIVE Examples from WAGNER, INCLUDING the very “POWER OF THE RING” motif…. DANG.

he says:

a succession (of chords) is aimless, a progression has a specific goal in mind.

I have taught about this in my classes, with the instinctual aim of liberating “successions” from the judgement of negativity due to not BEING progressions.
things don’t HAVE to be “GOING SOMEWHERE” to BE and EXIST and BE VALID IN AND OF THEIRFUCKSELVES…

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the last Leitmotif in Gotterdammerung…

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! is “The Redemption Motif”
NOT
the LAST ONE, in Gotterdammerung, in The Ring?

though I’ve always considered that penultimate “IV iv” 
DURING said motif, seconds from the end, to be just that, a IV, to a iv, (to the I of course soon)
is it not in fact one of those insidious ring-related motifs, perchance that of
“The Power of The Ring”????

 

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