Fwd: Re: GR translation: a felt darkening

[Paul Mackin]

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Subject: 	Re: GR translation: a felt darkening
Date: 	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:46:55 -0400
From: 	Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: 	Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>



On 6/29/2011 10:21 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>  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.
>>
>  a) more proof that you're not a bedlamite
>
>  b) what would be more jarring would be moving the thumb up to a C,
>  thus forming an E augmented chord, maybe?
>  or the pinkie down to a D#, and the middle finger down to a G natural,
>  D# augmented?
>
>  I think I'll give it a rest at this point, though.
>
What counts I guess is that the two chords (really part of the same
four-part chord) when played one after the other have a pleasantly sad
kind of sound, especially when arpegiated.

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