Music Study No 2
Seven Sisters Dancing – I wrote a few images down on a piece of paper (wind over ice – etc.) and then my wife Allison came up with the image of seven sisters dancing – an old Iroquois Legend that I think speaks very nicely to the feeling of space and playfulness that might be the world inhabited by Demeter and Persephone early on in the Opera. I wrote this one early this week and tried to accomplish a few things. The main concept was to use one melodic idea and then rearrange the harmonic background so it goes through a large transformation. In this study there are 3 different versions of the same melody each starting on the chord of F major but then going in vastly different harmonic directions. I think rhythmic diversity will be a big component of this work so moving into a different rhythmic pulse for the word “dance” plays to that idea.
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