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Showing posts with label 486. THE CONCEPT OF CHROMATIC ARPEGGIOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 486. THE CONCEPT OF CHROMATIC ARPEGGIOS. Show all posts

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