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The guards at the gate can barely hear the festivities deep in the castle. But standing watch over the cannon is no hardship: they tell each other stories, and sometimes a kitchen wench comes to bring them food and ale, and possibly a quick smooch behind the guard house.
Any musical eggheads, stop reading now and try to figure out what's happening in this tune.
spoiler alert.....
Ok, first of all, there is an ostinato bass, meaning that the same pattern (4 bars) repeats throughout. Secondly, it's obviously a canon, which means that the second voice plays the same as the first, just a little later, one measure in this case. But listen closely. It's actually a canon "at the second": the second voice echoes the first, one tone (actually, one step of the scale) lower! How on earth do you write something like this? Well, Bach could do it without any problem (see the Goldberg variations) but I just hooked up a delay and a diatonic pitch shifter, and toyed around looking for melodies that would work this way. Isn't technology wonderful?
This is one of the movements in my Courtly Suite.
Any musical eggheads, stop reading now and try to figure out what's happening in this tune.
spoiler alert.....
Ok, first of all, there is an ostinato bass, meaning that the same pattern (4 bars) repeats throughout. Secondly, it's obviously a canon, which means that the second voice plays the same as the first, just a little later, one measure in this case. But listen closely. It's actually a canon "at the second": the second voice echoes the first, one tone (actually, one step of the scale) lower! How on earth do you write something like this? Well, Bach could do it without any problem (see the Goldberg variations) but I just hooked up a delay and a diatonic pitch shifter, and toyed around looking for melodies that would work this way. Isn't technology wonderful?
This is one of the movements in my Courtly Suite.
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Feter
Brilliant ..the first word came to my mind hearing
the eastern beats withg the recorder start ..
its a lovely canon with brilliant imagenary to the
story you tell here .most charmin music ever you
done these renaissance always looking forward to
explore and enjoy them ..you such telnted musician
Hats of to you !!!!