Forward movement on two legs characterises the second day, ruled by Mars (or Tiw) and his marching soldiers. Against the backdrop of a Mediterranean beach, a harp is playing Aeolian scales to a soprano clarinet, centring on A, suggesting eternal recurrence, Oneness. The first day of the week is set in the dream world of Luna, the Moon goddess.
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(2014) Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms. (1992) ‘Speculative Music: the Numbers behind the Notes’ in: Companion to contemporary musical thought. As the week has a circular pattern, the music should be played ‘in repeat’, forever … I follow the contemporary order by starting from Monday, giving each day’s music a progressive meter: 1 - 2/4 – 3/4 - 4/4 - 5/4 - 6/8 - 7/4. Within a few centuries the seven-day week spread from the Mediterranean, as far as England and East Asia. The seven-day sequence was adopted by the Germanic peoples before their conversion to Christianity, substituting the Germanic gods (except Saturn) with what Jeffrey Kripal has called ‘a polytheistic comparative practice based on the god’s function’ (Kripal 2014, 13). Because Constantine was a Christian convert, he moved the first day of the week from Saturday to Sunday, thus degrading the pagan god. When the Roman emperor Constantine adopted the seven-day week in AD 321, it had been in use informally since the first century BC. I have taken over his scheme as keys for the week days (A-D-G-C-F-B-E) and connect them with the church modes. Joscelyn Godwin has argued that the order of the days of the week derive from the Greek Dorian mode applied to the Chaldean order, proceeding by descending fifths (Godwin 1992, 265). Their sequence in the week is probably derived from the Chaldean order: furthest (Saturn) to nearest (Moon) to Earth, jumping two planets as in a heptagram. Seven is the number of celestial objects visible to the naked eye. The seven day cycle of the week is a Sumerian-Babylonian invention and the present assignment of the planetary gods to the days of the week dates from the Greek-Hellenistic era. In the world of antiquity, there was a general sense that the stars were connected to the gods and to music. It is part of my post-graduate research on ‘Star Music’ in the ‘Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred’ programme at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Live performances on wind instruments engage with sampled sounds. You can speed up or slow down your melody by changing the number - this goes from 0 (slow) to 4 (fast).Septimana is a suite of seven musical sketches contemplating the seven planetary weekdays, expressing the characteristics of numbers and divine eponyms using seven keys, rhythms, scales, melodies, sound collages and some improvisations.How close or far apart your place your notes will determine the rhythm of your melody.This is like how Stockhausen uses his tone rows You can repeat them consecutively (immediately after each other) but not return to them later on in the melody. The other 14 notes you are allowed to use only once.You can use this note as many times as you like in your melody Your melody should start and finish on this note. Choose a main note (the notes are listed down the side).Below is a simplified version to use as you compose your melodies: NB notes can be added to your melody by simply touching the grid.Īs we saw in the introduction, Stockhausen composed his melodies with certain rules about which notes he could use when.Don't allow non-music box notes (sharps).Set the music box composer app to use 15 notes.
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Set up your app using the settings icon (cog): This will give the character of your music. Find out what their star sign is and what characteristics are attributed to that star sign. Decide on who your melody will describe - a friend or family member. You can also buy a more expensive DIY 15 note music box kit (for an example CLICK HERE) which you can programme to play the melodies you have composed.įirst of all, download, have a play and learn how the Music Box Composer app works.īeing a music box, you can't change the dynamics or the timbre (type/quality of sound) so this activity will focus on pitch and rhythm. To do this, we suggest you use Music Box Composer, an inexpensive app (Android and Apple) on which you can create and play music box melodies. In this activity you are going to create your own zodiac melody for a music box.