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The charm of modern harmony

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It might seem strange, but it really is like this: this morning I was playing on my piano, I was jotting down some ideas when at a certain point I leaned on the keyboard and I spontaneously played three notes, three simple notes: C, E, G, a simple C major.

I realized that even today it gives me emotion; if I then play the same chord with a slightly special position (for musicians, with a left-hand tenth) on an acoustic grand piano, well, the emotion becomes even greater.

And then.....just add one note to the right hand, a simple D, and then the chord becomes something current, modern, fascinating.

The power of harmony, that thing that clothes every sound, every melody; a garment suitable for every season and every time.

Harmony, or rather the essence of music.

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Reply 2 by Marzapane

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Of course, the charm of harmony... but more ancient than modern. Consider that the perfect cadence was already well-established in Monteverdi's time

Obviously, by adding a note to the major triad, one can form one of the 7 species of sevenths which, in this specific case, would be the second degree of C major; a man of the Baroque knew this chord very well and fortunately we have reached it

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