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-- Wind Chime Daydream --
My friend Barb Johnson has a wind chime. I believe, based on its appearance and tuning, that it's one of Garry Kvistad's Woodstock Chimes®, the one he calls "Chimes of Olympos." It is definitely tuned to the pentatonic Olympos Enharmonic mode of the ancient Greeks. I wrote down the intervals once when I was visiting Barb, then came home and looked it up. I was itching to write a piece of music around the sound of that chime. By adding two notes to the Olympos Enharmonic scale, to serve as the 3rd and 7th steps of a diatonic scale, I arrived at a Phrygian mode scale. The 3rd and 7th are used very sparingly, and accidentals are few in number. |
To play a Phrygian mode scale on a piano, you just go from one E to the next on the white keys. If you leave out the G and the D, that's an Olympos Enharmonic scale. (EFABCE) Barb's chime is tuned to D Olympos Enharmonic , but I transposed it up a whole tone for the other instruments. (No sharps or flats in the key signature.) |
Key: E Phrygian Mode Time signature: 4/4 Tempo: 100 Length: 94 measures Time: 3 minutes, 50 seconds |
Instruments: Wind Chime, Harp, Voice "Oohs", Sitar, 2 Alto Saxes. 2 French Horns, Clavinet, Synth Bass, and Drums |
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