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Arabian Hungarian Tango revised.midArabian Hungarian Tango revised - 完整总谱.pdf

No idea how to come up with a good second theme. Don't know what style it could be as of now. Suggestions are welcome!

 

(The tango being from Argentina and Uruguay, both former Spanish colonies. Gypsies from Spain (Gitanos) became part of both Argentina and Uruguay. The Arabian tinge from Spain being conquered by arabs. I suspect thats how they fit into this fragment)

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Hello @Chemathmusician0510 and welcome to the forum!

From what I can glean from the score PDF, you spend most of the piece on the dominant without ever resolving to B major (what I am assuming is the tonic even though there seems to be plenty of evidence from the D naturals in the piece that you might be in B minor instead or maybe just borrowing).  Can you provide an mp3 rendering of the piece to give people a better idea of what the piece might sound like?  Thanks for sharing!

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On 2/21/2025 at 7:53 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Can you provide an mp3 rendering of the piece to give people a better idea of what the piece might sound like? 

Added in an mp3. I'm still new to composing (especially the computer aspects), so some of the files needed to converted. Hope it helped! 

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My first instinct is - what mode should this be in?

If a tango, then I might assume it's actually in four sharps. Try your left-hand motif such that the notes are F# C# A C#  and you'll hopefully hear what I mean. Otherwise, what you're creating is simply a rhymic drone of sorts*, using I and V. Therefore, I think you might need to establish what mode you're in and correct my assumption. The title of your piece says Arabian, so I suspect you want to allude to the locrian mode. How might you esablish that? (Or, if not the locrian mode, then how might you establish what you do intend? There are, of course, more options than simply the locrian mode.)

 

*I very much like rhythmic drones - too many composers go off on so many tangents far too often for my liking!

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