Month: March 2013

In the March 4 Blog I said that ‘next time’ I’d resume the discussion of the quartet, using number 24 in the list of thirty-six 7 unit scales presented on page 122 of the book. The work was virtually complete, it’s just that I had a vague feeling of unease which, from experience, usually means […]

The work commenced seven blogs ago, where I began an experiment with the Fibonacci series as a source of chords, scales and rhythms, was put aside for a while. It’s often a good idea to do this (not always possible in commercial situations) when the process of writing begins to lose the joy of ‘discovery’ […]

The previous blog dealt with using number 24 in the list of thirty-six 7 unit scales, presented on page 122 of the book, as the basis of a composition. Once more, an attempt has been made to turn a technical exercise into a reasonably performable piece. We wrote out the chords of the ‘key’, made […]

A recent blog dealt with using a scale of notes related to the Fibonacci series as the basis of a composition, instead of the familiar major and minor scales and their modal variants. It was done in the form of a blow-by-blow account of the actual process of writing the composition, although a reasonable attempt […]