{"id":927,"date":"2024-03-06T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2024-03-06T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:49:35","slug":"chromatic-neighbor-embellishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Chromatic Neighbor Embellishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chromatic Neighbor Embellishment &#8212; Could be the title of a track on a Prog album?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explaining Super Mario&#039;s Underwater Music\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vGL036UzzA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>embellishments &#8212; add color or sense of motion to main note<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor motion &#8212; goes to one of the notes on either side, then comes back<\/p>\n<p>chromatic neighbor motion &#8212; moves a semitone. Might not be in the key<\/p>\n<p>Chromatic embellishments of cheerful major key melodies are part of the musical identity of Mario games<\/p>\n<p>not just melody but also harmony and bass notes move like this<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8212; these early games had limited polyphony because of sound board. Spells out a chord with root, 5th, and melody note is the 3rd of the chord. If revoiced, the interval between the top notes would be a third. Koji Kondo in interviews said he wanted to use interval of a 6th because it sounds fuller. So &#8212; three note spread voice chord, with root on the bottom &#8212; means the 3rd has to be on top.<\/p>\n<p>Melody E, Eb, F, E is called Double Neighbor Embellishment; later there&#8217;s a chromatic passing note in a run<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chromatic Neighbor Embellishment &#8212; Could be the title of a track on a Prog album? embellishments &#8212; add color or sense of motion to main note Neighbor motion &#8212; goes to one of the notes on either side, then comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=927\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-education","category-music-theory","category-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}