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Excellent analogy ~ Beautiful wisdom ~
Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on June 20, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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Excellent analogy!
posted by
Troosha
on June 20, 2008 at 9:00 AM
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Great poem !
posted by
afzal50
on June 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM
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Re: hey sophie..thanks for stopping by blog...
Hey Mike, you thoughts and feedback is always appreciated. Thanks for stopping by. God sure did create us all for a purpose but it is also important to remember that we are also here to work hand-in-hand with others. But you sure got that right...all you got to do is just continue to follow God. Take care and stay blessed. Sophie.
posted by
safriyie
on June 19, 2008 at 9:35 PM
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Thanks John for reading my blog and thanks for the free education. I actually don't know that much about the piano. But I think it is a very wonderful musical instrument. Thank for the information. Very much appreciated. Sophie
posted by
safriyie
on June 19, 2008 at 9:33 PM
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hey sophie..thanks for stopping by blog...
and i love,love this poem.. how thought out.. its nice to think that God has created us for a purpose and we are to find it.. im still looking but i know God is in control and i think i will just follow Him....mike
posted by
meeks2
on June 19, 2008 at 8:53 PM
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Ever try playing chop sticks on the white keys? It would be called a trasposition. The black keys, played by themselves is a pentatonic scale ("MY GIRL"). The placement of the white keys is even more interesting: starting on A, and playing all the white notes up to A, is the Aolean mode.
However, the major scale is invented by playing Aolean Mode, starting on C. (Thank you, the family Bach).
With this single placement (or misplacement) the piano became the first computer that changed the world from polyphany to counterpoint.
I agree. There is a lot to be said about the piano.
Ex: starting on D, and playing all the white notes is Dorian mode, starting on E the mixalidian, F the frigian, G the lydian, A Aolaen (and B was still a no, no because it screethed the soul--probably
becasuse we didn't have a name for it).
So what's the diff between a mode and a scale? Probably just a time a time warp. It was Ambrose who noticed how Gregorian Chant was being sung, and classified these sound as modes. What he identified is what we know as natural minor scales--it's all still in the white keys.
The simple revolution happens thru 3 generations of Bachs: by starting the Aolean Mode on C, introduces B as the halfstep to C the octave, and this changes everything around: the major scale will always have its relative minor. This not only opens transposition, but also new instruments such as the sax.
And as far as writing goes, we also have the idea of clef.
Hadn't been thinking about any of this for years til I read you tonite. Thanks for waking me up.
John
posted by
jfm32
on June 19, 2008 at 6:48 PM
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Ever try playing chop sticks on the white keys? It would be called a trasposition. The black keys, played by themselves is a pentatonic scale ("MY GIRL"). The placement of the white keys is even more interesting: starting on A, and playing all the white notes up to A, is the Aolean mode.
However, the major scale is invented by playing Aolean Mode, starting on C. (Thank you, the family Bach).
With this single placement (or misplacement) the piano became the first computer that changed the world from polyphany to counterpoint.
I agree. There is a lot to be said about the piano.
John
posted by
jfm32
on June 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM
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