Yesterday after dinner, I was playing with one of the iPhone apps - Garageband. For some reason I was creating some disco music with different combination of rhythms, lots of synth and a melody with a normal Piano sound (image 1)
Image 1 - Garageband work board
Today, I started to think that maybe the melody I created on Garageband could be useful for my Guitar and String Quartet work. So today, I started playing even more with my new melody and my Guitar and String Quartet harmony, and realised that in fact it is possible to link them.
The melody it is quite simple, for that reason I did a quick sketch where the melody and the harmony have the same duration (image 1)
Image 2 - chord and melody together
Later, I categorised all notes of the melody as partials. On image 2, it is possible to see A flat, A natural and F are the 13th, 14th and 11th partials of the harmonic series from the chord 1 (B natural) on the original pole [see “Harmony - the same process”, 03/04/2018]
Although, the melody on image 2, is all in the original pole, the chords on the piano are not. For example, the 2nd chord is an inversion of the chord 1 on the opposite pole (image 3)
Image 3 - chord 1, original pole, version 0 (as appear on the harmonic series) and chord 1, opposite pole, guitar inversion 1.1 (guitar inversions are the inversions of the chords that a guitarist can play)
After, I decided to start using voice leading. On other Sibelius file I experimented how voice leading influence my chords, inversions, melody and harmony (image 4)
Image 4 - melody and harmony with voice leading