While listening to some of the prescribed pieces for 20C music, I was reminded of the test piece of WMC 2009, Atmospheres by John Golland.
Starting on a hexachord built on 2 augmented triads, F A C# and G B D# (In fact it was written Cb, Db and Eb on my vibraphone part.) Enharmonic equivalence invoked I guess.
The 2 augmented chords actually form a whole tone scale on F. The equal spacing of the 6 notes in the hexachord produces a lack of a tonal center(absence of leading note), hence giving the 1st movement its essence - Mysterious.
The forte name of the hexachord is 6-35, [0,2,4,6,8,10]. It is self-complementing and interestingly, the IcV is only able to produce either one tone, 2 tone or tritone intervals.
hello! yes! when we did 'atmospheres', i was also reminded of john golland's work too..i've seen this a couple of months and had been listening to this whilst reminiscing days at WMC with ntu band! haha. and so coincidentally, the use of the then-we-thought 'augmented chords' really intrigued me to possibly chosen that for the analysis paper but ended up not.
ReplyDeleteps: you play in a band too? wmc-ed?