Nix Dance ★ MUSIC 214 ★ Composition Assignment #2
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Written on May 13th 2021
Performed by Aryaman Manish Joshi
Composers Statement:
“Nix, also called nixie, or nixy, in Germanic mythology, a water being, half-human, half-fish, that lives in a beautiful underwater palace and mingles with humans by assuming a variety of physical forms (e.g., that of a fair maiden or an old woman) or by making itself invisible. One of three attributes may betray the disguises of nixes: they are music lovers and excellent dancers, and they have the gift of prophecy. Usually malevolent, a nix can easily be
propitiated with gifts. In some regions, nixes are said to abduct human children and lure people into deep water to drown. According to some sources, nixes can marry human beings and bear human children.”
People who know me, know very well how obsessed I am with fish and aquatic life. I sometimes wish I were half-human half-fish so I could swim with fish. I tried to capture this emotion with this piece. The setting I was imagining was a large lake with diverse aquatic life. The Nix resides in that lake and is the king. The A section describes the Nix being joyful and dancing on the lake. Section B starts with the Nix showing off some tricks and going in and out of the water. The calmer part of Section B is the Nix diving underwater and swimming and dancing with the diverse life in the pond. Section A returns and the Nix comes out of the water and resumes his lively dance. He finishes his dance with a magical and virtuosic display of colour and manipulating water. The piece is in ternary form. Section A and A’ is roughly in F Aeolian and Section B is roughly in F Dorian. One can find a lot of modal interchanges, planing, non-functional harmony, polychords and quartal and quintal harmony scattered around the piece
Pure music flowing as if from one mind to the another. Excellent!
This makes me feel like a faerie flying through an enchanted forest and I love it
Does have that feel haha. That's Dorian + 6/8 for you
Amazing 🥺
Thank you yaar!!
メロディーはすごい！キラーチューン！
いいえそんな！ご覧いただきありがとう、凜ちゃん
very beautiful piece 😍
modal harmony sounds so interesting and fresh compared to more 'strict' common practice style, it's nearly like a film score, absolutely love that!
@@alexanderbayramov2626 Thank you so much, modal harmony and modal interchange is one of my favourite compositional techniques to use. I'm glad you like it, this piece was so fun to write!
This is soo damn cool! Any chance of a download of the sheet music?
Hey! I'm super glad you liked it!
Yeah for sure, here you go!
drive.google.com/file/d/1VEL4RnxsXZSazAs2MlA_4c54GgRVvp0n/view?usp=sharing
I'd love to hear it if you do get around playing it, just checked your content out, you shred so hard! Good luck.
Aha nice! Do this in 53 edo next hehe
Omg, Bleu Orb?? I'm a BIG fan of your content. Thanks so much for watching! How did you find my channel lol?
Yeah, 53 edo is a cool idea XD. I just would have no way of performing it.
Keep posting your awesome stuff, I'm obviously gonna watch it.
@@amj.composer aha I recently got into a lot of microtonal (though I don't really understand much of it and just play around with just intonation based off xenharmonic wiki and my own ear's intuition lol and I'd stick to 12 tone (cuz I do too much jazz) ) and I went down the rabbit hole discovering a ton of microtonal groups and channels hehe. Ans yes it's good to see a lot of microtonal craze nowadays!
@@amj.composer you could take the 12 notes of the keyboard and then tune them to 1w notes of 53 edo
oh hello 😳
Dance, nix, dance!
Lmaoo