GR translation: a felt darkening

[Michael Bailey]

 Paul Mackin wrote:

>
> By the way while on this paragraph does anyone have any idea why the
> bedlamites were weeping over the modulation from the E major chord to a G
> sharp minor one, which isn't really of modulation at all?
>
> Or was the lack of a key change the point?
>

if we're talking about triads, an E major would consist of E, G#, B

a G# minor triad, if you're going to modulate into it, on say an
organ, and by moving a single finger, would have to be I think the 2nd
inversion, and you would move your thumb down from the E natural to
the black key next to it, which would be D#

(G#m triad is G#, C, D# ---- first inversion is C, D#, G#, --- 2nd
inversion is D#, G#, C --- the note on the left being the leftmost key
on the piano)

anyway, in like funereal or spooky music, you get that sustained chord
and then move the one finger and the whole mood changes

--- prattling of one who minored in music for awhile...