GR translation: a felt darkening

[Michael Bailey]

I am not real sure that anything I said was right.

for instance, the G#m triad would be G#, B, D# (not G#, C, D#, which
would be the G# major triad)
with the inversions changing respectively

and the impression I get from imagining changing from an E major,
moving the pinkie (left hand) down to a D# from the E,
well I think it would be more of a Pachelbel's canon kind of stately
feeling than anything spooky, you'd expect another step downwards,
another, and eventually a dignified upward motion...

so never mind.

As to the modulation, I guess you're right.  Too long out of it to
remember.  Something about if you're playing in a major key, you're
working with I, IV and V, and playing a minor chord puts you in a
different key?  That's what I was thinking anyway.

I'll ask a friend in the biz...


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 6/29/2011 5:51 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>>  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...
>>
> Thanks, Michael
>
> I don't have an organ here but tried it on the piano where the effect may
> not be as pronounced.  It failed to occur to me that a minor chord sounds
> more somber and funereal than a major, thus bringing on the tears.
>
> But there is no key change,  which I though was what "modulate" meant.  The
> G# minor triad is still in the key of E major.
>
> The iii triad of a major scale is a minor chord and is contained in the I
> major seventh.
>
> Anyway,  now i see why the bedlamite was in tears.
>
> Onward and Upward.
>
> P
>
> P
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