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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:58:06 -0400
Charles Atkins Blues Band - Cosmetic MusicAnd thanks everybody concerned!
Charles
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The Cosmetic Music Scale as Created by Charles Atkins
The Cosmetic Music Scale is an awkward manipulation of
tonality; keep in mind, however, that it is a game that forces you to think
outside the box enhancing musical adroitness. It can provide many hours of
wholesome recreation matching wits with friends, colleagues and the like. Your
results could win for you treasures of friends and other valued acquaintances.
Go ahead and apply a cosmetic scale to an entire language, word or group of
words and hear it sing. Hear a repeated spelling of your name, as well as your
brother's and sister's name or any other person's name. You can also hear a
repeated spelling of any name of a city, river, or star. Try it and see if it
sounds like fun. Afterwards, expand it and grow musically so that the entire
world is waiting to hear. This can become your own song!
Cosmetic music is a way to make music of the world more
personal. You can work, dance, and sing music of yourself; you can also make
music about your family and colleagues as well. Uniqueness is what we all have
to offer the world, so why not make it more definitively.
1. Cosmetic Music allows one to create a melody by using the
spelling of a word.
2. Each letter in any given word would represent a musical
note in the chromatic twelve tone system.
3. In order to spell a word, you can only use one octave.
The English Alphabet:
1. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
2. With cosmetic music, you can only use twelve chromatic
tones, and are restricted to just one octave.
3. This would mean that one tone would be used for more than
one letter.
4. You can start the alphabet (with the letter A), on any of
the twelve musical tones in a chromatic scale (for the cosmetic game, this is
known as "level").
Matching letters of the Alphabet with musical notes:
For purposes of familiarity and simplicity, we will start the
chromatic scale with the music note middle C; keeping in mind that we could
have started on any of the twelve tones.
Middle C = A
C sharp = B
D = C
D sharp = D
E = E
F = F
F sharp = G
G = H
G sharp = I
A = J
A sharp = K
B = L
Back to Middle C = M
C sharp = N
D = O
D sharp = P
E = Q
F = R
F sharp = S
G = T
G sharp = U
A = V
A sharp = W
B = X
Back to Middle C = Y
C sharp = Z
Listen to Explanation
Examples:
Using the above chart, spelling the word "CRAIG", would
result in the following notes:
The letter C corresponds to the music note D
The letter R corresponds to the music note F
The letter A corresponds to the music note middle C
The letter I corresponds to the music note G sharp
The letter G corresponds to the letter F sharp.
Application:
You can then take that melody (strange sounding as it may
be), and create an accompaniment to it, harmonize the melody or in some way
include that motif in a song or composition.
Notes:
When using the cosmetic music method to derive a melody, the
resulting melody may at first sound unsettling to the ear. That is OK. How that
melody actually gets applied to a composition would entirely depend on you the
music creator. The duration you give each note in the melody, the chord
structure/accompaniment you choose to give the melody, the tempo at which you
play the melody along with other factors, would influence the final sound. It
is up to the user of cosmetic music to make it work for the music being
composed.
Listen to an Example
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