Friday, June 28, 2013

Etude in a Four-Tone Scale

This is an etude I wrote experimenting with the idea of writing music in smaller subsets of the major scale. The result was pretty cool. It uses quartal harmony and complicated melodic ideas and it doesn't really sound boring even though the song only uses four notes with a small transposition at one point for variation.

Melodic Minor Etude

This is a melodic minor etude written in extended pentadic harmony. You can clearly hear the sound of the mode without problems from diminished and augmented chords getting in the way.