Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu

Author:W. A. Mathieu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2014-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Example 30.12

Everyone touched by Western culture is familiar with the complimentarity, in the Pythagorean dimension, between dominant and subdominant harmonies. At the outset of our training, both as listeners and as musicians, we learn to recognize and form the cadential energies of I, IV, and V triads. What is also part of the culture, but in a less pronounced way, is the pentamerous version of the cadential dance, the parallel/relative flux that balances the ear at the tonal center in the pentamerous dimension. The point of your work now is to juxtapose parallel and relative harmony in such a way as to develop an intuitive affinity with reciprocity in the ga dimension just as you already have in the pa dimension. (This crucial step is omitted in conventional theory and its pedagogy.) Sensitivity to the directionality of energy flow in the ga dimension will open your sensitivity to the effect of the Great Diesis, which is a kind of short-circuit in that flow.

Try to improvise freely using the following key scheme: C Major to A Minor to C Major to C Minor (repeat this many times). Be sure to use the tone G# in A Minor and the tone Ab in C Minor. Try to bring each realm into being with an economy of means, as suggested in example 30.13.

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