Today I was wondering about how to connect all my chords, inversions and transpositions. I thought, although all my chords have something in common, it’s really hard that all the chords I have connect to each other in a smooth way.
I mean, changing a chord to other chord must be like singing a song to a grandmother that is knitting - if the song is nice and smooth she won’t say anything, if the song have a strange progression she will say “ohh uhh”
So, for a first stage of my composition I decided to go and play my chords on the piano to understand which of them have a smooth relation. I ended it up with 9 chords that I’ll use in my first section (image 1)
Image 1 - selection of 9 chords to use in the first section of the chorale piece
The way the chords are orquestrares in image 1 it’s different of the way I’ll orquestraste in the choir. The reason is, the sonority and the range of the piano it’s not the same that the sonority and the range of the choir. For example, in the first draft of the score chord 2 is orchestrated in a different way (image 2)
Image 2 - orchestration of chord 2 in the choir