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="Geometric" harmonic constructions with Armodue= | ="Geometric" harmonic constructions with Armodue= | ||
The composer Scriabin has based much of his compositions on nucleopolar accordances. | The composer Scriabin has based much of his compositions on "nucleopolar accordances" or "chord centers" (Klangzentrum). | ||
To understand the nature of such accordances we should refer to specular reflections of light in a crystal, according to a | To understand the nature of such accordances we should refer to specular reflections of light in a crystal, according to a strict central symmetry. | ||
An image that comes in mind about is the eight pointed 'star' that sometimes appears in a photo area when the lens faces a rather intense light source. | |||
Scriabin's idea is to render {paint?} this optical phenomena through the sounds. | |||
Hence the formation of a center-note (central light source) from which depart upper interval-rays and relative higher notes and, by symmetry or reflection law, lower reflected rays-intervals with equal amplitude but with reversed direction and the corresponding notes lower than the central note. | |||
The central note is thus more properly called nucleopolar note, a real mirror where the lower intervals and low notes are reflected in the higher intervals and high notes. | |||
The resulting chord - built in perfect central symmetry or nucleopolarity - constitutes the fundamental sound system to which we will refer in the texture of the melodies and architecture of the chords. | |||
The modulation principle, in this environment, is to be be meant as minimal andgradual variation of the size of one or several intervals that are pivoted on the chord's nucleopolar note, or - more drastically - to be interpreted as a radical and brusque transformation of the same intervals. | |||
In Armodue, nucleopolar harmony cans find a wider and more perfect application , compared to the twelve notes system. In fact, a sixteen notes scale seems already to contain implicitly the central symmetry principle (sixteen is the perfect square of a perfect square -4- and corresponds to the mandala archetype as conceived in almost all cultures and traditions of the world: a wheel with eight or sixteen spokes). | |||
Let's assume, for example, the note 5 as nucleopolar. The note 5 will work as a mirror in which lower and higher intervals and notes will reflect. | |||
If we elect the three intevals of 6, 8 and 13 eka, it will generate the following sound structure (read the notes from left to right in an orderly proceeding from low to high): | |||
7 - 9 - 1# - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3 | 7 - 9 - 1# - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3 | ||
As we can verify, from the note 5 | |||
We have | As we can verify, from the note 5 the two mirrored 6 eka intervals spread (defined by notes 1# - 5 and 5 - 8), the two intervals of 8 eka (defined by notes 9 - 5 and 5 - 9) and the two intevals of 13 eka (defined by notes 7 - 5 and 5 - 3). | ||
The sound structure | |||
We have thus obtained three notes lower than the nucleopolar note 5 (the notes 7, 9 and 1#) and three higher than the same note 5 (thenotes 8, 9, 3) | |||
The sound structure obtained this way can be used as is in the construction of melodies and chords, or it can be liable to undergo microvariations and be modulated. | |||
For example, we can just bring a slight variation - hence an asymmetry - that momentarily but in a significant way destabilizes the strict "crystallinity" of the sound raising the note 1# for bend one eka (replace it by note 2): | |||
7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3 | 7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3 | ||
Later, we can restore the perfect equilibrium and | |||
Later, we can restore the perfect equilibrium and symmetry of the sound structure altering in equal sense and contrary motion the note 8 that balances the note 2 (the 8 so goes down - in diametrally opposite way - of one eka and so is replaced by note 7#): | |||
7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 7# - 9 - 3 | 7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 7# - 9 - 3 | ||
The shown microvariation principle can obviously be applied also to more than a single note simultaneously. | |||
In other circumstances, we can integrate the original structure with the addition of new intervals and notes or change the structure radically by employing different generator intervals. | |||
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The composer Scriabin has based much of his compositions on nucleopolar accordances.<br /> | The composer Scriabin has based much of his compositions on &quot;nucleopolar accordances&quot; or &quot;chord centers&quot; (Klangzentrum).<br /> | ||
<br /> | |||
To understand the nature of such accordances we should refer to specular reflections of light in a crystal, according to a strict central symmetry.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
An image that comes in mind about is the eight pointed 'star' that sometimes appears in a photo area when the lens faces a rather intense light source.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
Scriabin's idea is to render {paint?} this optical phenomena through the sounds.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
Hence the formation of a center-note (central light source) from which depart upper interval-rays and relative higher notes and, by symmetry or reflection law, lower reflected rays-intervals with equal amplitude but with reversed direction and the corresponding notes lower than the central note.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
The central note is thus more properly called nucleopolar note, a real mirror where the lower intervals and low notes are reflected in the higher intervals and high notes.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
The resulting chord - built in perfect central symmetry or nucleopolarity - constitutes the fundamental sound system to which we will refer in the texture of the melodies and architecture of the chords.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
The modulation principle, in this environment, is to be be meant as minimal andgradual variation of the size of one or several intervals that are pivoted on the chord's nucleopolar note, or - more drastically - to be interpreted as a radical and brusque transformation of the same intervals.<br /> | |||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
In Armodue, nucleopolar harmony cans find a wider and more perfect application , compared to the twelve notes system. In fact, a sixteen notes scale seems already to contain implicitly the central symmetry principle (sixteen is the perfect square of a perfect square -4- and corresponds to the mandala archetype as conceived in almost all cultures and traditions of the world: a wheel with eight or sixteen spokes).<br /> | |||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
Let's assume, for example, the note 5 as nucleopolar. The note 5 will work as a mirror in which lower and higher intervals and notes will reflect.<br /> | |||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
If we elect the three intevals of 6, 8 and 13 eka, it will generate the following sound structure (read the notes from left to right in an orderly proceeding from low to high):<br /> | |||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
7 - 9 - 1# - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3<br /> | 7 - 9 - 1# - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3<br /> | ||
As we can verify, from the note 5 | <br /> | ||
We have | As we can verify, from the note 5 the two mirrored 6 eka intervals spread (defined by notes 1# - 5 and 5 - 8), the two intervals of 8 eka (defined by notes 9 - 5 and 5 - 9) and the two intevals of 13 eka (defined by notes 7 - 5 and 5 - 3).<br /> | ||
The sound structure | <br /> | ||
We have thus obtained three notes lower than the nucleopolar note 5 (the notes 7, 9 and 1#) and three higher than the same note 5 (thenotes 8, 9, 3)<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
The sound structure obtained this way can be used as is in the construction of melodies and chords, or it can be liable to undergo microvariations and be modulated.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
For example, we can just bring a slight variation - hence an asymmetry - that momentarily but in a significant way destabilizes the strict &quot;crystallinity&quot; of the sound raising the note 1# for bend one eka (replace it by note 2):<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3<br /> | 7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 3<br /> | ||
Later, we can restore the perfect equilibrium and | <br /> | ||
Later, we can restore the perfect equilibrium and symmetry of the sound structure altering in equal sense and contrary motion the note 8 that balances the note 2 (the 8 so goes down - in diametrally opposite way - of one eka and so is replaced by note 7#):<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 7# - 9 - 3<br /> | 7 - 9 - 2 - 5 - 7# - 9 - 3<br /> | ||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
The shown microvariation principle can obviously be applied also to more than a single note simultaneously.<br /> | |||
<br /> | |||
In other circumstances, we can integrate the original structure with the addition of new intervals and notes or change the structure radically by employing different generator intervals.<br /> | |||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
<hr /> | <hr /> | ||
Chapter 5: <br /> | Chapter 5: <br /> |