Today I started to transpose my chord 1 in all the ‘major’ tonalities of the circle of fifths (image 1)
Imagem 1 - chord 1 transposed in all the ‘major’ tonalities of the circle of fifths
In a merely attempt of create a harmonic journey between B to D and B to A-flat, I took in my transpositions and started to link similar notes between the transpositions (image 2).
Image 2 - similar notes between transpositions
Then, I organised the chord in order to have a sort of voice leading (image 3)
Image 3 - similar botes between transpositions organised in voice leading
Is it possible to return from No. 3 to No. 0? (Image 4)
Image 4 - going back from No. 3 to No. 0
Now, having all these possibilities I create a journey not only between B and E but also from B to A-flat (image 5)
Image 5 - chord 1 journey between B to A-flat using its transpositions
Making these new sketches made think about ‘Colours (in circles)’. The way I am creating, transforming, transposing my material is similar, which takes me to the blog page “Decisions” (05/04/2018) where I divided my chord 1 in four chords using only intervals of major-2 and major-7, and major-2 and minor-6. Doing these chords, I may be then writing something very similar with ‘Colours (in circles)’.
They are good chords, but I am not sure if I want to repeat myself - or maybe I want, not in all the piece, but maybe in one section. A section where I can explore some melodic and slow fragments, something that was missing on the Marimba and String Quintet piece, and I may explore more in this work for Guitar and String Quartet.