Text: Subject: Re: [svpvril] SVP and sacred geometry Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:17:04 +0000 From: "Luigi Di Martino" Reply-To: svpvril@yahoogroups.com To: svpvril@yahoogroups.com Hi Nina Here's a few words on how to mirror music. If one imagines a whole piece of music as being a journey, then mirroring is about retracing that journey from the begining and in an opposite manner. Frere Jacques is a good example. First though one needs a grid to work with. Simply write out the scale for C Major (all the white notes on a piano starting on C ) C D E F G A B C Then a little circle is put around the first C note to show it is a central axis point. Then the scales'journey is retraced from that axis and in the opposite direction. The first move, for example, is shown as C to D. This distance is measured as a 'tone' movement in music. So, one moves by a tone in the opposite direction Bb - C - D Remember that C is the central point and either side is this one movement of a tone. This Bb note on the opposite side is not part of the C Major scale so we are obviously about to discover a different scale living 'opposite' to C major. The next move is D to E, and again it is a movement of one Tone. And again this move is reversed. Ab Bb C D E Hotmail is not very good at providing text editing so you will have to imagine the C in the center about to give birth to two types of scales. If you can imagine this in its entirity: C Db Eb F G Ab Bb C D E F G A B C The first melody line of Frere Jacques is C D E C. The mirror notes are calculated by substituting the notes in symmetrical reflection to the originals. So the mirror notes for this melody are C Bb Ab C. Instead of it ascending, the mirror melody descends, and sounds very different to the original because it is being expressed in another scale, another tonality (from Major to Minor) The accompanying chords to the tune are also mirrored. The first chord is usually that of C major - C E G - . These mirror to C Ab F. This is actually the chord of F minor and that is the one used to accompany the new mirror tune. This is all there is to it! I discovered this strange 'side effect' because I didn't know one was supposed to play both sides of the mirror together when indulging in this rather intellectual excersise. I was told a few years later that that is the way classical music students were taught.Because I am self taught in musical things I imagined two journeys instead. Obviously one can mirror their own music eventually and can get rid of things like writers block by considering the mirror side of what they have been composing. One could mirror the notes and chords to a chorus they have written and then use that new information to construct an intro to the song. This can give some strange key shifts but still be related to the original by symmetrical pairing. Anyway, hope that helps! Lui

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