| General > General Technical Chat |
| PERFECT music! Perfect melodic engineering! |
| (1/7) > >> |
| eti:
I can't understand how this is SUCH a beautiful song, what makes it so, but it's... WOWW... I regularly have this on repeat for 8-10x!! |
| John B:
It's probably the harmony. It starts out diatonic, but from then on its all modal interchange/chromatic mediant/flat direction major 7th chord substitutions which people tend to associate with epic and goosebumpy moments (technical terms). |
| eti:
--- Quote from: John B on August 14, 2020, 01:53:01 am ---It's probably the harmony. It starts out diatonic, but from then on its all modal interchange/chromatic mediant/flat direction major 7th chord substitutions which people tend to associate with epic and goosebumpy moments (technical terms). --- End quote --- Wow! I'm no musician, but asked Google what all those terms mean, and it's very interesting, thank you. Vangelis is truly a musical genius of vast breadth and depth, seemingly endless. |
| TimFox:
If you like subtle flexible harmonic content, you should check out composers from centuries ago, such as Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566 to 1613), whose revolutionary chromatic language was not heard again until the late 19th century. Like today's musicians, he was not a nice person--he had his wife (and innocent bastard) killed by minions for adultery, which was shocking at the time since a nobleman was supposed to do that himself. |
| Mr. Scram:
You know what they say about taste. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |