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Sunday, September 4, 2022

429. SIMPLICIAL SUBMELODY WITH ARPEGGIO INTERVAL PER CHORD INSTEAD OF ONE NOTE PER CHORD FOR COMPOSITION OF MELODIES

 Such simplicial sub-melodies  have much more information for melody composition, as they contain a pitch direction (up, down , steady) as pitch moves for each chord. They have also the advantage that they utilize the 66% of the chord, thus there is less indeterminacy in the relation melody-chord.

These pairs of notes are usually even number odd odd number notes of the full melody, in other words they need extension with interpolated notes. 

To compose the full melody we interpolate notes of the 6-notes scale Celtic minor between the notes of the simplicial sub-melody  so as to have intervals of 2nds, and so that the interpolated note (usually outside the chord) has duration 1/2. or 1/3 of the corresponding note of the simplicial submelody. In this way we are certain the the derived melody fits to the underlying chord. 

The pitch direction (up, dowm , steady) shows the topological pattern of the simplicial melodic themes. Of course a full melodic theme may involve more than one chord, e.g. 2 chords with the characterization of the transition relation as chromatic , melodic and harmonic. 

We give an example here with the Irish folk song Frost in Celtic minor (6 notes scale g,a,b,c,d,e)

The chord progression and structure of repetitions is  4 times the 


Am  Am 

Am  G

Am G

Am Am 

And then 2 times the 


Am G

Am G

Am G

Am Am 

G Am

Am G

Am G

Am Am 

And then all these 2 parts  3 times


The arpeggio interval simplicial submelody for the first part  and for each chord is the 

Am(e5->c5)   Am (c5->a4)

Am(a4->e4)  G(g4->b4)

Am(c5-c5) G(b4->e4)

Am(a4->c5)  Am (c5->e5) 

And for the 2nd part is 


Am(a4->c5) G(e5->b4)

Am(e5->a5) G(g5->d5)

Am(e5->a5)  G(b5->g5)

Am(a5->e5) Am(e5->a5) 

G(g5->d5) Am(c5->a4)

Am(e4->a4) G(b4->d5)

Am(a4->a4) G(d4->d4)

Am(a4->a4) Am(a4->a4) 


To compose the full melody we interpolate notes of the 6-notes scale Celtic minor between the notes of the simplicial sub-melody  so as to have intervals of 2nds, and so that the interpolated note (usually outside the chord) has duration 1/2. or 1/3 of the corresponding note of the simplicial submelody. 

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