My reaction to the piece was a bit different from the students' -- I felt that the piece had my feet "firmly planted in mid-air", i.e. not planted anywhere. No Tonic. No Home. Just mist. Blind-folded in a fog. I got to the augmented-only thought quickly, and realized that that was what was giving me that feeling...augmented triads are famous for not going anywhere. Then Debussy switches to the pentatonic scale, and it was like the blindfold was taken off...and...oh great, I still can't see anything, cuz there's this dense fog everywhere. Maybe it has a little color now...blue or green, maybe, but in pastels. Thanks for sharing. You got a sub here.
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My reaction to the piece was a bit different from the students' -- I felt that the piece had my feet "firmly planted in mid-air", i.e. not planted anywhere. No Tonic. No Home. Just mist. Blind-folded in a fog. I got to the augmented-only thought quickly, and realized that that was what was giving me that feeling...augmented triads are famous for not going anywhere.
Then Debussy switches to the pentatonic scale, and it was like the blindfold was taken off...and...oh great, I still can't see anything, cuz there's this dense fog everywhere. Maybe it has a little color now...blue or green, maybe, but in pastels.
Thanks for sharing. You got a sub here.