106. THE VARIATION INDEPENDENT MELODIC SEED AND HARMONIC SEED IN COMPOSING A SONG

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In composing  melodic themes based on melodic triads (see post 208) we should use also the concept and technique  of  variational  independent base of melodic shapes or melodic seed. I other words the melodic themes shapes that are mutually variational independent, in other words neither translation neither , inversion, neither rotation can derive any one of them from the others, and in addition all other melodic themes of the song can be derived with variations from them.

As the melodic seed is usually a melodic theme of the chord-local scale (of the chord-yard melody) and the 3-notes chord in general is denote by 1-3-5, it can be described as number sequence from 1 to 7. E.g. 1-7-1 or 1-5-3-6) etc with the appropriate time duration of course.

See also post 311 about the Melidic maths  of Max Martin

In the next videos one can see how melodic themes of notes  (but also of chords) and mutations of them plus repetitive combinations of them, can be created by keeping invariant an  initial germ-pattern or  melodic-seed of  interval shifts and pause (GERM PATTERN)  of a note (or chord) or  of  initial pattern of sequence of melodic themes of notes or chords after  seeminly random pauses (omittings) of the parts of the fixed pattern. 

Melodic themes of notes can be considered and created also as repettitive combinations of a small set of interval-steps (pitch transformations) in a scale plus a pause wchich may be called MELODIC GERM . A melodic germ  as basic invariant can give many melodic themes with an internal affinity which can  be considered a system of muttations of melodic themes

Comparing the melody with a speaking language suggests the next correspondence

Let us correspond to each vowel a number of steps inteval shift insidea scale 

E.g. 

empty space=pause 

A=1 step

E= 2 steps

I= 3 steps

O=4 steps

OU=5 steps

Then the content of vowels of any phrase can be translated as a GERM-PATTERN for creating melodic themes as muttaions of this germ-pattern  (and latter also repettitive combinations of them)

See also post 106 about melodic seeds

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