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Friday, February 20, 2026

486. THE CONCEPT OF CHROMATIC ARPEGGIOS

 About chromatic arpeggios over a chord (and chord-scale).

The chord 7-scale is split to 5-string + 4-string parts. 
We substitute the voice melody M of the song with a simplicial submelody SM of it. Each note of the simplicial submelody is a note of the underlying chord. Then we extend the simplicial submelody SM, with small oscillations (within the 7-note chord-scale) 4 times faster, (e.g. if the SM has  notes that are of duration  1/4, then the oscilaltion is with 4 notes of duration 1/16) around each note of the simplicial submelody. The result is the chromatic arpeggio CA-SM, which on the island of Crete is also called "condilies." The pattern of the oscillation determines the style-signature of the condilia

Tuesday, January 13, 2026