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Showing posts with label 345. CHROMATIC TONALITY ON THE LEVERED HARP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 345. CHROMATIC TONALITY ON THE LEVERED HARP. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2020

345. CHROMATIC TONALITY ON THE LEVERED HARP

 The levered harp as played in Paraguay , Combia,  Peru etc is a diatonic instrument tuned to a fixed initial diatonic scale, bu during the playing ofthe song some levers are move to provide one or more of the 5 chromatic or "blue" note that extend the 7 notes of the diatonicscale to the 12 of all notes. In particular 

we have the 5# chromatic note  , for harmonic minor ofthe aeolina  mode shifts, the 2# and 5# for double harmonic minor shifts ofthe aeolina mode, and slso 4# and 6# for chromativ shifts as in the overtones diatonic scale of the  brass instrumenst between 8th and 16th overtones. Finally the 1# also for neopolitan shifts of the aeolian mode. 

Thus the practice o the leverd harp in the latin americacountries realizes what we have describe here as chromatic tonality in the posts 336, 334, 263, etc