Chord progressions and color terms
So in the 60s, two linguists (berlin and kay) noticed that the amount of color terms a language has corresponds directly to what those color terms are. So, if there are two colors, they are light/warm and light/cool. If there is a third, it's almost invariably red.
Stage 1: Dark-cool and light-warm (this covers a larger set of colors than English "black" and "white".)
Stage 2: Red
Stage 3: Either green or yellow
Stage 4: Both green and yellow
From my observations of music, I've come to similar conclusions about the chords one finds in a song
Stage 1: two chords - the root and the fifth (so, C and G, or D and A)
Stage 2: three chords - the root, fourth and fifth (G, C and D)
Stage 3: four chords - I, IV, V, and a minor sixth or a minor second (F, Bflat, C, dminor, or G, Am, C D)
Stage 4: Five chords - I, IV, V, vi and ii.
After that, it starts varying more widely - especially since blues and old-timey uses modes with flattened VII and III chords. But yeah, I think this framework accounts for about 80% of the popular music made in the west during the last 6 decades.
um, I guess I could blog about life too. nah, that's what twitter is for.
Stage 1: Dark-cool and light-warm (this covers a larger set of colors than English "black" and "white".)
Stage 2: Red
Stage 3: Either green or yellow
Stage 4: Both green and yellow
From my observations of music, I've come to similar conclusions about the chords one finds in a song
Stage 1: two chords - the root and the fifth (so, C and G, or D and A)
Stage 2: three chords - the root, fourth and fifth (G, C and D)
Stage 3: four chords - I, IV, V, and a minor sixth or a minor second (F, Bflat, C, dminor, or G, Am, C D)
Stage 4: Five chords - I, IV, V, vi and ii.
After that, it starts varying more widely - especially since blues and old-timey uses modes with flattened VII and III chords. But yeah, I think this framework accounts for about 80% of the popular music made in the west during the last 6 decades.
um, I guess I could blog about life too. nah, that's what twitter is for.