Each week Jesse Stacken is composing, recording, and posting one solo piano composition which utilizes the techniques of the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992).
Saturday, October 19, 2013
22.) Three Quarter Moon
Three Quarter Moon is in 12/8 time, which I rarely write in. Interestingly a line in this meter just started coming out when I sat down this week. I welcome it. The piece features three voices. Each of the three voices uses one of the three different octatonic scales. It starts with a dialogue between the upper two voices, until the lower voice enters with the duplet rhythm. Then the voices are added one at a time, until all three are happening at once. It sounds a little chaotic at the end, but it was a fun thing to learn.
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