Mixolydian Dance No. 5
Posted by Peter on April 2nd, 2007
Here it is, my modal composition for Advanced Harmony II. A few quick details and then the MIDI:
- I titled it “Mixolydian Dance No. 5.” Why? Just as a play on Hungarian Dance No. 5 (even though it sounds nothing like it). It is pretty fast and “dance-like” though.
- If I didn’t make it obvious enough, it is in the Mixolydian mode (duh) with a few deviances.
- It is in 6/8 (3/4) time (one measure in duple compound meter followed by a measure in triple simple meter, and so on). I still am stumped as to how to set that up in Finale, so I eventually just wrote it in manually using the expression tool. I had to manually rebeam some of the measures manually, but it’s ok.
- About 50 measures in about 50 seconds. It moves fairly quickly.
- For Piano and French Horn. I wrote it like that so Jed could play in it class for me, but we never did play it in class. Oh well.
- It was a result of working on it Friday night and some of Saturday. Ie. I didn’t spend weeks on this, so don’t feel like you got gyped if it doesn’t meet your expectations.
- Here’s the MIDI.
Again, let me know what you think.
Oh, BTW, I got my Original ABA back . . . A+ . . . with this note: “I guess you should probably be a musician, after all.” Not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but I’ll take it.
