Yellow Swirling

Here is something I wrote recently.

The harmonic motion here is very interesting; the whole lyrical aspect sounds very nice. What's cool is the fact that despite you ending on a minor chord, the whole piece isn't centered on one specific tone. Even if you were writing in the key of a minor, there's some chords in there that do not belong in the key (and that makes the piece even more dramatic when borrowing from other keys). Also, a key note to get out of this, every time some chord change occurred, I imagined different shade of the color yellow appearing and then changing into a different shade in mind (relating back to the title). The darker the chord is, the darker the shade of yellow the color will be; and vis versa, the brighter sounding the chord is, the lighter the shading would be.

1 hour ago, SerialismSerious said:

The harmonic motion here is very interesting; the whole lyrical aspect sounds very nice. What's cool is the fact that despite you ending on a minor chord, the whole piece isn't centered on one specific tone. Even if you were writing in the key of a minor, there's some chords in there that do not belong in the key (and that makes the piece even more dramatic when borrowing from other keys). Also, a key note to get out of this, every time some chord change occurred, I imagined different shade of the color yellow appearing and then changing into a different shade in mind (relating back to the title). The darker the chord is, the darker the shade of yellow the color will be; and vis versa, the brighter sounding the chord is, the lighter the shading would be.

 

Thanks for listening.

It has been made according Batóks' Axis system, taken them as chords of a tonal family or as whole tonalities. So there is, yes, a tonal center, but it is not one only tonality, it is the family of tonic.

I stand corrected. I've never heard of something like that. Now I learned something new, and the way you presented these tone families are well done! 

14 minutes ago, SerialismSerious said:

I stand corrected. I've never heard of something like that. Now I learned something new, and the way you presented these tone families are well done! 

 

If you are interested, here is the score with notes: