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Friday, May 24, 2019

223. MINORIZATION-MAJORIZATION AS A UNIQUE HARMONIC TRANSFORMATION (NEGATIVE--POSITIVE HARMONY) MODULATIONS VERSUS TRANSPOSITIONS OF MELODIES AND HARMONIES


Here it is described why and how the transformation of a song from a major mode diatonic scale to a minor mode diatonic scale (and vice versa) is not just an ordinary change of mode among the 7 possible modes of the diatonic scale (e.g. from the ionina to the aeolian) but a  unique harmonic and melodic transformation.

In the nxt video this transformation from a  major mode to the minor mode (but also as scale modulation) is described under the term negative harmonics.

Do you know beautiful songs written in a Aeolian or minor mode of a diatonic scale? Then try the positive harmony, in other words transform them melodically and harmonically to a major mode and make them happier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHH8siNm3ts&t=168s


TRANSCRIPTIONS:
We must discriminate between the concept of transposition transcription  of the  melody and harmony of a song from that of modulation transcription .  A transposition transcription preserves the intervals among the notes of the melody and types of chords and it is played on higher or lower pitch. But a modulation transcription does not preserves the intervals among the notes of the melody neither the types of the underlying chords as it is "translating within the scale" and not within the 12-notes chromatic scale, the melody and its chords starting from a different note of the scale (different mode). Both though require that all the melody (or song) is written in a single scale (or mode) and the transcription is another scale or mode of equal number of notes.