Music-wise, this was an excellent week, and progress has been made. At least one area of my life is positive and progressing, right?
As our dear church pianist has been sailing around Croatia for the past two Sundays, Helmut and I had the joy and privelege of leading the music again. Last week, we played this song that was in a painfully major key, and even sounded like "America, the Beautiful" in certain parts. Let's just say that it didn't help the given situation.
So, as we were practicing, I had the brilliant idea of slowing the song down and changing it to a minor key. You know... it's possible to take a nice, positive upbeat song and make it hauntingly melancholy by changing merely a few notes around. Of course, as a general rule, misery loves company, so we decided to share our little dirge with others and play it as the prelude the following week at church. Which is what we did this morning.
To make it more climactic, we played the original melody first, and then did an obvious and semi-dramatic switch from major to minor, and followed it up with two rounds purely in the new, realistic minor key. It was lovely and fun in a kind of weird, twisted way.
I've also been working on the Funeral March by Chopin, which would make a charming little Sunday morning prelude. There's nothing like a nice funeral march to get your day started off right.
Lyric of the Day: "Oh beautiful, for patriot's dream that sees beyond the years... thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears." (Thanks to an unknown author)
1 comment:
That's my tricky trickster! Though I think it's easier to play with five flats than with two sharps... w/ five flats, all you do is flat everything that's possible... but w/ two sharps, you have to remember which two notes to sharp. :)
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