Modal Series Explorer

Progression Roles
Pick a key & a mode, and for the voicing don't worry about anything more important vertically than Maj/min/OTHER, as horizontal voiceleading is the true matter to begin.


Primial: 1 4 5

Secundial: 2 8 11 12

Tertial: 3 6 7 9 10



Keys


C Solststitial August Light-Blue

- C major: A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh, but it can smile; it cannot howl, but at least it can grimace its weeping. Consequently, one can transfer only unusual characters and feelings into this key.

- C minor: Laments or repentance, intimate conversations with God, the friend, and the playmate of life [soulmate], sighs of unsatisfied friendship and love lie in its circle.


G Equinoctial March Yellow

- G major: The grave key. Death, grave, decay, judgment, eternity lie in its circumference.

- G minor: Ill-humor, a heart squeezed to the point of suffocation, laments of misery which sigh at the flat, difficult struggle; in a word, everything that laboriously rings through this key's color.


D Equinoctial October Purple

- D major: The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God; expressing, through its[...two sharps].

- D minor: Feelings of anxiety, of all the soul's deepest distress, of being lost in daydreaming despair, of blackest melancholy, of the soul's gloomiest condition. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart breathes from the shocking D minor. If ghosts could speak, they would doubtless speak from this key.


A Equinoctial May Green

- A major: Cheerful love, good conscience, hope, a longing for a better world.

- A minor: An oddity, for the most part dressed in the garment of night. It is somewhat disgruntled and embraces most rarely a pleasant mien. Mockery against God and the world; displeasure with itself and with everything; preparation for suicide resound in this key.


E Solststitial December Medium-Violet-Red

- E major: Complaisance and repose.

- E minor: Deep depression, wailing for the dead, groans of misery and yearning for the grave.


B Solststitial July Cyan

- B major: B major is quite pure. Its character is innocence, simplicity, naïvety, and baby-talk.

- B minor: Declaration of love, and at the same time lamentation of unrequited love. Every languishing, longing, sighing of the love-crazed soul lies in this key.


F#/Gb Solststitial February Rosy-Brown

- F#/Gb major: Everything rustic, moderately idyllic and lyrical, each quiet and satisfied passion, each tender recompense for sincere friendship and true love; in a word, each gentle and serene motion of the heart can be expressed splendidly in this key. Too bad that it is today so very much neglected on account of its seeming agility. One does not consider that there is no difficult and facile key in the real sense, but these apparent difficulties and agilities depend on the composer.

- F#/Gb minor: Displeasure, uneasiness, worry about a failed scheme; discontented gnashing at the bit; in a word, anger and disgust.


C#/Db Equinoctial September Blue

- C#/Db major: The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of battle cries, of triumphant rejoicing. Accordingly, one sets attractive symphonies, marches, festive songs, and heaven-rejoicing choruses in this key.

- C#/Db minor: Dejected womanhood which broods notions and illusions.


G#/Ab Equinoctial April Dark-Sea-Green

- G#/Ab major: This key contains declarations of innocent love, contentment over its situation, hope of reunion at the parting of a lover, youthful cheerfulness, and trust in God.

- G#/Ab minor: Pious womanhood and tenderness of character.


D#/Eb Equinoctial November Magenta

- D#/Eb major: Loud shouts for joy, laughing pleasure, and still not altogether full gratification lies in Eb major.

- D#/Eb minor: Naïve, womanly. Innocent declaration of love, lament without murmuring, sighs accompanied by few tears. This key speaks of impending hope of the purest happiness calling forth in B major. Since by nature it has only one color, one compare it with a girl, dress in white, with a rose-red bow on her bosom. One withdraws this tone with inexpressible grace again to the fundamental B major, where heart and ear find the most perfect satisfaction.


A#/Bb Solststitial June Turquoise

- A#/Bb major: Strongly colored, announcing wild passions, made up of the crudest colors. Anger, rage, jealousy, fury, desperation, and every burden of the heart lies in its sphere.

- A#/Bb minor: Bb minor is, as it were, the key of patience, of the silent expectation of fate, and of the submission to the divine decree. Therefore, its complaint is so gentle, without ever breaking out in offending murmurs or whimpers. The application of this key is rather difficult for all instruments; for that reason, one finds so few pieces which are composed expressly in this key.


F Solststitial January Red

- F major: Triumph in difficulty, a free sigh of relief on having crossed hills, reminiscence of a soul which has struggled hard and finally is victorious lie in all applications of this key.

- F minor: A gloomy key. It pulls at the passion as the biting dog at one's pants leg. Anger and discontent are its language. Ordinarily, it does not seem to be well in its position; therefore, it always languishes for the repose of G#/Ab major or for the conquering bliss of C#/Db major.



Grid


Semifilled hexagonal mesh of hexachords or something



Construction


Amalgamaticization: intro, hook, verse, drama, antechorus, heighten, chorus, battlecry, bridge, pacechange, afterbridge, outro.



Tiers


Melody
[Voiceleading]
Harmony
[Dynamics]
Rhythm
[Instrumentation]
Fringe



Ranges


Going through the 128 GMTones, if category's instruments are a b c d a b c d, then octaves allowed are 5 < a < 8, 3 < b < 5, 2 < c < 5, 1 < d < 2; since Tuba ends up with c & Muted Trumpet ends up with d these can be re-imagined as euphonium & bass trombone, and if Bassoon is c & Clarinet is d then bass clarinet & contrabassoon.



Limitation


Apply many limitations nonsimultaneous.



Variation


Note variety.



De-Avoids


#1/b2

#8/b9

#4/b5



Hybrid


Stack modes.



Inversions


Top implies melodics.



Slash


Even if dense, don't play all the notes.



Negative


If C, then C & F#/Gb stay the same, yet G major becomes F minor.



Turnaround


Nonmonophonics all can be altered.