Part 2 So, the second part of this question, is that the music is based on a different musical system than the one we use today. So if you wish to “get it” you would need to listen to more of it. This music is based partly on a system called “Modes”. This Modal system […]
Angela’s Question about Medieval Music
Angela asked; I would like to understand how a piece was appreciated by people at the time. The pieces from this period seem a bit flat and monotonous to my modern untrained ear (brain). What am am I not hearing and appreciating. Were they ‘pleasant background mood music’ or pieces people listened intently as we […]
Variations on Small Piece 7 – an essay
I wrote the first version of Small Piece 7, around 1990. It had no 4 bar introduction and was a short A B waltz. The main basis for the piece was (ie what kicked it off), was my interest in Major Minor chord switches. In bar 5, which was originally the first bar of the […]