I've always favored the augmented over the diminished sound mixing with diatonic intervals adds such a wonderful flavor I think bill evans studied debussy and herbie talks about ravel that and my fascination with miroirs and le tombeau de couperin by ravel and l'isle joyeuse and images by debussy
Great comments and yes all true. Ravel and Debussy were visionaries and the works you mentioned are important works of art. We can see how diminished and augmented are very closely related as well as the resolution of these chords by a number of potential interval movements. The voicings transform easily back and forth from diminished to augmented as well in the examples. Thank you for these additions!
as an afterthought maybe augmented I think sort of gives you a feeling like you're floating away almost like a person is dreaming have you checked out sorabji yet ? that guy was from a different planet !
transforming between diminished and augmented another afterthought about a similar idea about nine years ago I wrote a small essay on scriabins mystic chord basically lydian dominant voiced in 4ths - I remember asking someone if they thought he chose this chord for its tonal ambiguity so he would be able to imply different tonalities by superimposing targeted intervals based on what ever tonality he wanted to imply and being able to change from one to another at will late scriabin, sorabji and messian are the three composers I think of as other worldly
I've always favored the augmented over the diminished sound mixing with diatonic intervals adds such a wonderful flavor
I think bill evans studied debussy and herbie talks about ravel
that and my fascination with miroirs and le tombeau de couperin by ravel and l'isle joyeuse and images by debussy
Great comments and yes all true. Ravel and Debussy were visionaries and the works you mentioned are important works of art. We can see how diminished and augmented are very closely related as well as the resolution of these chords by a number of potential interval movements. The voicings transform easily back and forth from diminished to augmented as well in the examples. Thank you for these additions!
as an afterthought maybe augmented I think sort of gives you a feeling like you're floating away almost like a person is dreaming
have you checked out sorabji yet ?
that guy was from a different planet !
@@ziegunerweiser this could be true...
transforming between diminished and augmented
another afterthought about a similar idea
about nine years ago I wrote a small essay on scriabins mystic chord basically lydian dominant voiced in 4ths - I remember asking someone if they thought he chose this chord for its tonal ambiguity so he would be able to imply different tonalities by superimposing targeted intervals based on what ever tonality he wanted to imply and being able to change from one to another at will
late scriabin, sorabji and messian are the three composers I think of as other worldly
@@ziegunerweiser the essay on the scriabin sounds great. i like his later work and i like roslavetz's work as well.
I mean, obviously.
TY and very much appreciated!!!!